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GENEALOGY 



OF THE 

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APOSTLE TO THE INDIANS" 



1598-1905 




A New Edition, 1905 



Prepared and Published by the Committee appointed at the meeting of his 
Descendants, at South Natick, Mass., July 3, 1901 

Wilimena H. (Eliot) Emerson, Chairman 
Ellsworth Eliot, M.D. 
George Edwin Eliot, Jr. 

Committee 



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Produce their debt instead of their discharge 



Copyright 1905 

by 

Wii.imrna H. (Eliot) Emerson 



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FROM 

THE BAY PSALM BOOK 

The Fift Booke 

Psalm 107 

"O give yee thanks unto the Lord 
because that good is hee ; 
because his loving kindness lasts 
to perpetuitee." 



®0 the Mentors of 
WILLIAM HORACE ELIOT, Jr., A.B., A.M., LL.B. 

BORN DEC. 30, 1824 
DIED DEC. 8, 1852 

WHOSE LABORS IN THE PREPARATION OF THE 

"GENEALOGY OF THE ELIOT FAMILY" 

PUBLISHED AFTER HIS DEATH, IN 1852, BY SEVERAL 

MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY, 

ARE THE FOUNDATION AND LARGELY THE SUPERSTRUCTURE 

OF THIS VOLUME 

I905 



PREFACE 



O INCE the publication of the "Genealogy of the Eliot Fam- 
^ ily," compiled by William H. Eliot, Jr., before 1854, one 
or more unsuccessful attempts have been made to issue another 
edition. It was not, however, until the second gathering of the 
descendants of John Eliot at Natick in July, 1901, that a definite 
step was taken in the appointment of a committee, who have 
since pursued their labor of love for nearly four years. The 
result is in your hands to-day, and we respectfully commit it to 
your interest and to your leniency. Although great pains have 
been taken to secure all the Eliot lines, we regret to say that 
a few have either not been reached or have not responded. 
Likewise we have sought to ensure accuracy of dates, though 
this is not always possible, as authorities differ. 

For this reason contemporaneous records, as far as possible, 
have been used rather than those made and copied years after- 
wards. Those who have the first book will note that with the 
exception of the Genealogy proper we have not incorporated 
much of the old material, thus leaving that book still valuable 
for many purposes. The addition of the family of Bennett 
Eliot, now known as the Apostle's father, will prove of interest 
to many. The interest on the part of the descendants of many 
female lines has been so great that we have ventured to extend 
some of these lines far beyond the usual limits, and we hope 
that they will be lenient towards the errors which must of 
necessity creep in through the effort to disentangle so large a 
mass of material. 

As the editor-in-chief is responsible for the preface, I take 
great pleasure in informing you of those who have given freely 
of their time and strength and of placing the credit where credit 
is due. 



vi PREFACE. 

To Dr. Ellsworth Eliot of New York must be awarded the 
chief praise and glory, if glory there shall be. He, more than 
any other, has had the constant enthusiasm to pursue the task 
and the material to use in its preparation. He was the first to 
begin and the last to leave off, material having been received 
from him after the manuscript was ready for the printer. He, 
more than any other, except the author of the first Genealogy, 
has kept the family together — through his interest in and his 
social relations with them ; through the inception and com- 
pletion of the Memorial window to John Eliot in the church at 
\\ id ford, Hertfordshire, England; through the raising of the 
funds for the Joseph Eliot Memorial Scholarship at Yale Col- 
lege, and of the Eliot Prize Funds at Jesus College (Eliot's Col- 
lege) Cambridge, England. Nor is this all. But these are the 
things which will stand out in bold relief, and we are all proud 
to recognize him as the "Chief of our Tribe." May I add that 
his extreme modesty caused him to decline having his portrait 
inserted until the last moment, when he yielded to the impor- 
tunities of many members of the family, and to them we must 
be duly grateful for this pleasure. 

As George Eliot, Jr., has been able to do comparatively little 
"i the work of compilation, though always most ready and help- 
ful as an adviser, his place was partly taken by his sister, Mary 
C. Eliot of Clinton, who has been a tower of strength in even- 
way. Annie Griffing (Fowler) Davis of Guilford was one 
of the first to begin and collected the entire line of John (34). 
( Others who have furnished a large amount of material are 
Henry Hill Elliott of New York, Mrs. Frances Elliott Clark of 
Milwaukee, Wis., Florence V. Elliott of Bloomington, 111., 
William Sidney Eliott of Chicago, Mrs. I». S. Johnson of Little 

Rock. Ark., Robert Eliot of Milwaukee. To all these our 
especial gratitude is due, hut we are beholden to many others 
for tiuuh assistance and encouragement. 



PREFACE. Vll 

As the more extended genealogical researches of the past 
twenty-five years have shown that there are many distinct fami- 
lies of Eliot in America, we have chosen the title "The 
Descendants of John Eliot, Apostle to the Indians," as this 
name will differentiate it from all other Eliot books. 

In conclusion, we venture to express the hope that this work 
will serve to draw the family more closely together, that the 
examples of exalted faith and noble endeavor crowned by suc- 
cess herein chronicled may spur us to renewed enthusiasm and 
better achievement, for as E. A. Freeman has justly said, "The 
inheritance of a really great name is an inheritance which should 
be matter not of pride, but of responsibility." 

Wilimena H. (Eliot) Emerson. 
(Mrs. Justin E.) 
128 Henry St., 
Detroit, Mich., March 31, 1905. 



"There is a great deal more in genealogies than is generally believed 
at present. I never heard tell of any clever man that came out of 
entirely stupid people. If you look around the families of your acquain- 
tance you will see such cases in all directions. I know it has been the 
case in mine. I can trace the father and the son and the grandson, 
and the family stamp is quite distinctly legible upon each of them." 

Thomas Carlyle. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Part I. 

PAGE 

The Family of Bennett Eliot and Lettye Aggar, their children and 

grandchildren, including the Will of Bennett Eliot, . 3 

Part II. 

The Family of John Eliot and Hannah Mountfort and their 

Descendants, . . . . . . 15 

Part III. 

1 Events having reference to John Eliot, during his life, chrono- 

logically arranged, ...... 214 

2 Events having reference to John Eliot, subsequent to his death 

and burial, chronologically arranged, . . . 251 

3 Publications of John Eliot, including tracts, . . . 257 

4 Lives of John Eliot, ...... 264 

5 Extracts relating to Hannah Mountfort, his wife, . . 267 

6 Memorials of the Apostle, ..... 269^ 

7 Family Relics, ....... 275 

8 The Royal line of Marj' Wyllys, . . (opposite page) 276 

9 The Surname Eliot and its correct spelling, . . . 277 

10 Places in England known to be associated with the memory of 

John Eliot, ....... 279 

11 Towns of Praying Indians, ..... 280 

12 Other Eliots among the early settlers of New England, . 281 

13 Sermon of John Eliot, ...... 282 

14 Letter of John Eliot to Oliver Cromwell, . . . 284 

15 Letters of Joseph Eliot ...... 285 

16 Catalogue of Library of Judge John Eliot (No. 9), . . 290 

17 Publications of Rev. John Eliot (No. 96) . . . 293 

18 Miscellaneous : — 295 

Natick Dictionary — Corporation for the Promoting and 
Propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England 
— Propositions aboute apparel and fashions by John 
Eliot — John Eliot's recipe for making ink — Parish Tomb 
at Roxbury — A Sheaf of Song in memory of Ethel Lynn 
Beers — Monthly advice published in Beckwith's Almanac 
1851 by Charles Wyllys Elliott— The last of Eliot's 
Indians — Positive Pedigrees and Authorized Arms — 
Extracts from Edward Everett Hale's Estimate of Eliot. 



DATES, OLD STYLE AND NEW 



Prior to Sept. 1752, the dates in this genealogy are in the Old Style. 
In those days, the year began March 25 th , called Lady Day, or Annun- 
ciation Day, in commemoration of the event recorded in St. Luke's 
Gospel, chap. 1. 5, 26-28. The first month of the year was, then, 
March : and the twelfth was February. September, October, November 
and December, were the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth months, as 
their derivation indicates. 

From the year 1582 to 1752 ten days should be added to dates in 
the Old Style in order to have them agree with our present reckoning. 
For example, our ancestors landed at Boston Nov. 4. O.S., but Nov. 14 
should be the day observed as our "Forefathers' Day." 



LIST OF PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 



Portraits 
Frontispiece. William H. Eliot, Jr., with autograph. 
Title Page. Photogravure of John Rogers' Statue of Eliot 

3 Dr. Jared Eliot, 

4 Prof. Elisha Mitchell, 

5 The Poet Halleck, 

6 Charles Wyllys Elliott, 

7 Dr. Ellsworth Eliot, 

8 Charles Elliott Perkins, 

9 Gen. Charles King, 



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44 
64 
80 

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140 
160 
192 



Illustrations 

1 Exterior and Interior of Widford Church, 

2 Some Eliot Autographs, 

3 Eliot Oak at Natick, 

4 Joseph Eliot's Court Cupboard, 

5 Elisha Mitchell's Monument, 

6 John A. Stanton's House at Clinton, 

7 Eliot Group taken at Natick, 1901, 

8 Eliot Memorial at Tucson, Arizona, 1904, 

9 The Parish Tomb at Roxbury, 



10 

26 
94 
102 
126 
148, 
178. 
268 
294 



ABBREVIATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS 

are those commonly used in Genealogies. 



bapt., baptized, 
b., born, 
bur., buried, 
d., died, 
dau., daughter, 
m., married, 
w., wife, 
wid., widow. 

Small figures attached to Christian names as exponents denote the 
generation. 
-\- preceding a number denotes that the person is mentioned further on. 
H. C, Harvard College or University. 
Y. C, Yale College or University. 
Names inclosed in parentheses are maiden names. 
O. S., Old Style. 
O. E. G. (old Eliot genealogy). 
G, Guilford. 
K., Killingworth (now Clinton). 



PART I 

THE FAMILY OF 

BENNETT ELIOT AND LETTEYE AGGAR, THEIR 

CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, 

INCLUDING THE WILL OF 

BENNETT ELIOT 



"Were I sure to go to Heaven tomorrow, I would do 
what I do today." 

(C. M. 21) 



THE FAMILY OF 

BENNETT ELIOT AND LETTEYE AGGAR, HIS 

WIFE: THEIR CHILDREN AND 

GRANDCHILDREN 

(Prepared by Dr. Ellsworth Eliot. — This part is not indexed.) 



I. The family of John Eliot, "Apostle to the Indians," has 
been traced back to Oct. 30, 1598, when his father, Bennett 1 , and 
his mother Letteye (Aggar) were married, as it is recorded in 
the Parish Register of the Church of St. John the Baptist, 
Widford, County of Hertford, England. The births or bap- 
tisms of their children indicate that they removed from Widford 
to Nazeing, County of Essex, between 1606 and 1610. Bennett 
was buried at Nazeing, Nov. 21, 1621 ; she, March 16, 1620. 
Both in graves now unmarked and unknown. 

CHILDREN. 

2. i. Sarah 2 , bapt. Jan. 13, 1599, at Widford; d. March 27, 

1673. 

3. ii. Phillip 2 , bapt. Apr. 25, 1602, at Widford ; d. Oct. 22, 

i657- 

4. iii. John 2 , bapt. Aug. 5, 1604, at Widford; d. May 21, 1690. 

5. iv. Jacob 2 , bapt. Sept. 21, 1606, at Widford; d. before Nov. 

2, 1651. 

6. v. Lydia 2 , bapt. July 1, 1610, at Nazeing; d. about 1676. 

7. vi. Francis 2 , bapt. Apr. 10, 1615, at Nazeing; d. in 1677. 

8. vii. Mary 2 , bapt. March 11, 1620, at Nazeing; d. about 1697. 

So far as is known, the brothers of John Eliot, Phillip and 
Jacob, have not descendants in the male line. All of Bennett 
Eliot's children left "The Old Home" for the new world. 

As the first years of their son, John, "were seasoned with the 
fear of God, the word and prayer" ; and as the will of Bennett 
Eliot shows evidently a large landed estate, besides other pos- 
sessions, the family doubtless enjoyed an excellent position. 



4 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

2. Sarah 2 (Bennett 1 ), married to Wm. Curtis, Aug. 6, 1618. 
He was bapt. Nov. 12, 1592 ; d. Dec. 9, 1672. 

They came to Boston, in ship Lyon, and landed Sept. 16, 
1632. They built a house on Stony river in 1639, which became 
famous on account of its antiquity and historical associations, 
and was torn down in 1886 ; having been occupied by seven 
generations of the Curtis family. In 1893 there was a farm at 
Nazeing, called the Curtis farm. 

In John Eliot's Record of Church Members, Roxbury, Mass.. 
it is written : "William Curtis he came to this Land in the 
yeare. 1632. & soone after joyned to the church, he brought 4 
children w th him. Thomas. Mary. John. Phillip. & his eldest 
son Willia, came the yeare before, he was a hopefull scholler, 
but God tooke him in the end of the yeare. 1634." 



CHILDREN. 



i. William 3 , bapt. at Nazeing, June 21, 1618; d. 1634. 



ii. Thomas 3 , bapt. at Nazeing, March 12, 1619; may have died 

an infant, 
iii. Thomas 3 , bapt. at Nazeing, Jan. 19, 1622 ; d. June 26, 1650, "of 

a long and lingering consumption." 

12. iv. Mary 3 , bapt. at Nazeing, March 11, 1620. 

13. v. Elizabeth 3 , bapt. at Nazeing, Feb. 13, 1624; m. to Isaac New- 

hall, Dec. 14, 1659. 

14. vi. Sarah 3 , bapt. at Nazeing, Aug. 5, 1627. 

15. vii. John 3 , bapt. at Nazeing, July 17, 1629; m. Rebecca Wheeler 

Dec. 20, 1661. Her death is thus recorded in the Roxbury 
Church Records: "Month 3 day 16 (1675). Rebecca, wife 
to John Curtis, dyed of hydropycall humors w c h occasioned 
the more speedy burial of her, on the Sabath Evening". 

16. viii. Philip 3 , bapt. at Nazeing, March 28, 1632; d. 1675; m - Obedi- 

ence Holland, Oct. 20, 1658. He was a lieutenant in the war 
with King Philip, and was slain by the Indians. 

17. ix. Hannah 3 , b. in Roxbury; m. Wm. Cary (or Geary), 1651. 

18. x. Isaac 3 , b. in Roxbury, July 22, 1641 (1642) ; d. May 31, 1695; 

m. Hannah Poly, 1670. 

3. Philip 2 (Bennett 1 ). 

Probably came to this country in the Hopewell, Apr. 3, 1635. 
with his wife and children. He was freeman, March 25, 1636 : 
member of the Artillery Co., 1638 ; Deputy to the General Court, 
1 654- 1 657; Deacon in the Roxbury Church; one of the five 
men to order the prudential affairs of the town. Feoffee of the 
Public School in Roxbury. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 5 

His marriage is thus quaintly recorded : "Oct. 20, 1624. 
Philip Eliot of Nasing, Essex, husbandman, a bachelor aged 
about 22, and Elizabeth Sybthorpe of Little Hallingbury in Co. 
Essex, maiden, about 23, daughter of Robert Sybthorpe, 
deceased : there appeared William Curtis of Nasing aforesaid, 
husbandman, and testified the consent of Anne Sybthorpe, 
widow, mother to the said Elizabeth ; at Nasing, or Little 
Hallingbury." 

Extracts from marriage licenses granted by the Bishop of 
London, 1598- 1639. "Historical Collections of the Essex 
Institute," vol. xxviii, Nos. 2 and 3, 1891. Elizabeth died Jan. 
8, 1659. 

Philip's virtues are thus recorded by his brother John in the 
Roxbury Church Records : "Philip Eliot he dyed about the 22 d 
of the 8 l month : 57. he was a man of peace, & very faithful, 
he was many years in the office of a Deacon w h he discharged 
faithfully, in his latter years he was very lively usefull & active 
for God, & his Cause. The Lord gave him so much acceptanc 
in the hearts of the people y t he dyed under many of the offices 
of trust y* are usually put upon men of his rank, for besides his 
office of a Deakon, he was a Deputy to the Gen. Court, he was 
a Comissioner for the govfim* of the towne, he was one of the 
5 men to order the prudential affairs of the towne ; & he was 
chosen to be Feoffe of the Publike Schoole in Roxbury." 

See N. E. Hist. & Genealog. Reg., vol. viii, p. 281, for an 
abstract of his will. 

CHILDREN. 

19. i. Elizabeth 3 , bapt. at Nazeing, Apr. 8, 1627; d. Apr. 18, 1714; m. 

about 1649, Richard Withington and had several children. 

20. ii. Sarah 3 , bapt. at Nazeing, Jan. 25, 1628; d. Nov. 12, 1686; m. to 

John Aldis, Sept. 27, 1650, and had several children. 

21. iii. Lydia 3 , bapt. at Nazeing, June 12, 1631 ; m. John Smith of 

Dedham after the death of her father in 1657. 

It has been supposed that Philip (No. 3) had a son Philip, 
because a child of this name, aged 2 years, came in the Hopewell 
in 1635 with his wife and daughters. As there is no record in 
any passenger-list of Philip (No. 3), and as Philip, aged 2 years, 
does not appear in any previous or subsequent record, the dis- 
tinguished genealogist, Mr. Wm. H. Whitmore, supposes that 



6 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Philip, aged 2 years, should be Philip, aged 32 ; and that Philip 2 
(No. 3) is therefore the person whose name appears in the 
passenger-list of the Hopewell. 

4. John 2 (Bennett 1 ). 

22. i. Hannah 3 , \ 

23. 11. John 8 , ^ J children of John Eliot. See, in the genealogy 

24. 111. Joseph 3 , ( for j ohn Eljot and his descendants, their 

25. iv. Samuel 3 , I record 

26. v. Aaron 3 , J 

27. vi. Benjamin 3 , / 

5. Jacob 2 (Bennett 1 ). 

Probably came to Boston, with his brother John (No. 4), in 

1631. They were made freemen simultaneously, March 6, 1631. 
He was chosen "Deakon" in the Boston Church, May 17, 1640; 
and was ordained, as one of its "Ruling Elders," Sept. 13, 
1649. 

Being a follower of the celebrated Mrs. Hutchinson, he, with 
57 others, was compelled to give up army and ammunition. 

For an abstract of his will, see N. E. Hist. & Gen. Reg., vol. 
i y » P- 53- Inventory £579. 2s. 8d. 

Married Margery ; — soon after her arrival in Boston in 

1632. She d. Oct. 30, 1661. 

CHILDREN. 

28. i. Jacob 3 , b. Dec. 16, 1632 ; d. 1693. Captain in Boston ; m. 

Mary Wilcock, wid., Jan. 9, 1654. 

29. ii. John 3 , b. Dec. 28, 1634; d. young. 

30. iii. Hannah 3 , b. Jan. 29, 1636; m. to Dea. Theophilus Frary, June 

4, i657- 

31. iv. Abigail 3 , b. Apr. 7, 1639; m. to Thomas Wyborne, Dec. 16, 

i657- 

32. v. Susannah 3 , b. July 22, 1641 ; d. March 14, 1688 ; m. to Peter 

Hobart of Hingham, Mass., Dec. 1662, and 2d to Thomas 
Downes. 

33. vi. Mehetabell 8 , b. Apr. 25; bapt. May 4, 1645; m. to Seth Perry. 

34. vii. Sarah 3 , bapt. Dec. 5, 1647. 

35. viii. Asaph 3 , b. Oct. 25; bapt. Nov. 2, 1651. 

6. Lydia 2 (Bennett 1 ) 

Came to Boston in 1631, with her husband, James Penniman, 
who d. Dec. 26, 1664. She was m. 2d to Thomas Wight of 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 7 

Dedham, Mass. (his 2d w.) Sept. 15, 1665. Her will was 
proved Sept. 27, 1676. 

CHILDREN, ALL BY HER FIRST HUSBAND. 

36. i. James 3 , bapt. March 26, 1633. 

37. ii. Lydia 3 , bapt. Apr. 22, 1635. 

38. iii. John 3 , bapt. March 15, 1637. 

The family removed to Braintree, Mass., and had 

39. iv. Joseph 3 , b. Oct. 1, 1637; bapt. Nov. 29, 1639. 

40. v. Sarah 3 , b. July 6, 1641. 

41. vi. Samuel 3 , b. Jan. 14, 1645. 

42. vii. Hannah 3 , b. May 26, 1648. 

43. viii. "Abigaill" 3 , b. Dec. 27, 1651. 

44. ix. Mary 3 , b. Sept. 29, 1653. 

7. Francis 2 (Bennett 1 ), Braintree, Mass. 

Was in this country before 1641, as, in this year, he was made 
freeman. Deacon, Oct. 12, 1652. Married Mary, dau. of Mar- 
tin Saunders of London. She d. Jan. 17, 1697. Assisted his 
brother John (No. 4) in his Indian work, for which he was paid. 
His will dated Oct. 30, 1677. 



45. i. Mary 3 , b. Jan. 27, 1640; said to have died young. 

46. ii. Rachel 3 , b. Oct. 26, 1643; was married to John Poulter of 

Cambridge, Dec. 29, 1662 ; and 2d to Dea. John Whitmore of 
Medford, Mass. 

47. iii. John 8 , b. Apr. 27, 1650; d. young. 

48. iv. Hannah 3 , b. Jan. 8, 165 1 ; was m. to Stephen Willis, Aug. 3, 

1670. 

49. v. Mary 3 , b. Dec. 25, 1653; said to have been married to Caleb 

Hobart. There is some uncertainty whether Mary, No. 45, or 
Mary, No. 49, was the w. of Hobart. 

50. vi. Abigail 3 , b. Jan. 12, 1658. 

8. Mary 2 (Bennett 1 ). 

Was married to Edward Payson (his second wife) Jan. 1, 
1642. 

Edward Payson, b. Nasing, Eng., Oct. 13, 1613, d. Dorchester, 
Mass., 1689. Came to America about 1636, member of John 
Eliot's church, Roxbury, land owner 1639. 



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DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Marah s , bapt. Sept. 22, 1641. 

ii. John 3 , b. June 11, 1643; m. Bathsheba Tileson. 
iii. Jonathan 3 , b. Dec. 19, 1644; bapt. Dec. 22, 1644. 

iv. Ann 3 , b. Apr. 26, 1646. 

v. Joanna 3 , b. March 5, 1649; d. March 27, 1668. 
vi. Ann 3 , b. Nov. 3, 1651 ; bapt. Nov. 30, 1651. 
vii. Susannah 3 , b. Aug, 1650; bapt. Aug. 28, 1653. 
viii. Susannah 3 , b. June 27, 1655 ; bapt. July 1, 1655. 
ix. Edward 3 , b. June 20, 1657 ; bapt. June 28, 1657. 

x. Ephraim 3 , b. Feb. 1659; bapt. Feb. 20, 1658.? 
xi. Samuel 3 , b. Sept. 1662. 



Samuel (61), b. and d. at Dorchester, Mass., bapt. Sept. 21, 
1662, d. Nov. 21, 1721. He married June 14, 1688, Mary, dau. 
of Rev. Samuel Phillips of Rowley. 

Phillips (Payson), son of Samuel and Mary, b. at Dorchester, 
Mass., Feb. 29, 1704, d. at Walpole, Jan. 22, 1778. A.B. Harv. 
1724 ; ordained at Walpole and preached there nearly fifty years. 
He married 2d, Oct. 9, 1757, Kezia (Bullen) Morse. 

Seth (Payson), only son of Phillips and Kezia, b. at Walpole, 
Mass., Sept. 30, 1758, d. at Rindge, N. H., Feb. 26, 1820. A.B. 
Harv. 1777. D.D. Dart. 1809. Trust. Dart. 1813-20. Senator 
N. H. 1802-3-4. Pastor of the Cong. Ch. at Rindge, N. H. 
He married Sept. 19, 1782, Grata, dau. of John and Thankful 
Payson, b. May 15, 1757, d. Mar. 3, 1827. 

Edward (Payson), eldest son of Seth and Grata, b. at Rindge, 
N. H., July 25, 1783, d. Portland, Me., Oct. 22, 1827. A.B. 
Harv. 1803. D.D. Bowd. 1821. Trustee Bowd. Coll. (see 
memoir and works by Rev. Asa Cummings). Pastor of 2d 
Cong. Ch., Portland. He married May 9, 181 1, Ann Louisa, 
dau. of Elias and Sarah (Butler) Shipman of New Haven. 

CHILDREN OF EDWARD AND ANN LOUISA. 

I. Edward, b. Portland, Me., Sept. 14, 1813, d. there July 21, 1890. 
A.B. Bowd. 1832. Memb. Miss. Bar 1834-46; Cumberland Bar 
1846; Maine Legis. 1864-6; author of "Law of Equivalents in 
relation to Political and Social Ethics" and other essays. He 
married Oct. 3, 1848, Penelope Ann, grand-dau. of Wm. Martin, 
Esq., of London and Portland, a grandson of Major Samuel 
Martin, Esq., of Greencastle, Antigua, and dau. of Samuel and 
Hannah (Morrill) Martin, d. Nov. 16, 1867. Children: 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 9 

a. Edward Payson, b. Westbrook (now Portland), July 16, 

1849; A.B. Bowd. 1869; LL.B. Harv. 1871 ; counsellor-at- 
law, author of sundry review articles ; m. Ethel Louisa 
Pratt of Waterville. 

b. William Martin, b. Westbrook, Aug. 18, 1852; A.B. Bowd. 

1874 ; counsellor-at-law. 

c. Francis Galpine, b. Aug. 1865, d. July 31, 1869. 

2. Louisa Shipman, d. 1862 ; m. Prof. Albert Hopkins of Williams 

College. She was an accomplished woman and a writer of 
numerous critical articles on Latin and German literature. 
Child: 
a. Albert, Lieut, killed in Civil War. 

3. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 26, 1818, d. Aug. 14, 1878; m. George L. 

Prentiss, A.B. Bowd. 1835, D.D. 1854. She was the author of 
"Stepping Heavenward" and many other books. She left four 
children. 

4. Henry Martyn, b. Oct. 13, 1821, d. Dec. 21, 1898; m. Emma D. 

Conant. Left child, George S., and three other sons. 

5. George, b. May 26, 1824, d. Dec. 1, 1893; A.B. Bowd. 1843; m. 

Margaret Codman of Portland. Author {nom de plume 
"Ralph Raven") of numerous books. Left a son and daughter. 

6. Charles, b. Sept. 3, 1826, d. Feb. 1890; m. Feb. 5th, 1852, Ann 

Maria Robinson. Children : 
a. Herbert, b. Dec. 11, i860; m. Apr. 5, 1893, Sally Carroll 
Brown ; children, Alida, b. Jan. 27, 1895 ; Anne Carroll, b. 
Oct. 14, 1896; John Brown, b. Oct. 1st, 1897; Charles 
Shipman, b. Oct. 16, 1898; Herbert, Jr., b. Mar. 23, 1902. 
Charles also had two other sons and a daughter. 
62. xii. Mary 3 , b. 1665. 



Notes. The marriage of Bennett Eliot and Letty Aggar is thus 
recorded in the Widford Parish Register : 

"An Dom° 1598. 
Bennett Eliot and Lettye Aggar were married 
the xxx th of October An Sup Dicto." 
The will of Bennett Eliot is signed Benedict Eliot. In the body of 
the will, it is spelled Bennet. 

The record of his and his wife's burial at Nazeing is 

"Ben'dt Eliot buried y e 21 of November" (1621.) 
"Lettes Ellyot 16 March. (1620). 
Mary's baptism, in the Nazeing Register, is 

"1620-1. Marrey Eleot, xi March." 
It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between dates of births and dates 
of baptism, the letter b being used somewhat indiscriminately. 



IO DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



BENNETT ELIOTS WILL, 

recorded in the Commifsary Court of London. Register for 1621-1626. 
Folio 85. B. ' . 

Printed in "The Heraldic Journal ; recording the Armorial Bearings 
and Genealogies of American Families. Vol. iv. Boston : . . . 1868" pp. 
182-186. 

Copied from this, and printed in Memorials of the Pilgrim Fathers 
... By W. Winters . . . Churchyard, Waltham Abbey, Essex, 1882." 
pp. 39-42. 

In the name of God, Amen. The fifth day of November, 1621, I 
Bennett Elliott of Nasinge in the County of Essex, Yeoman, beinge crasy 
and weake in body yet blefsed be god of p'fect memory beinge willinge 
to render my soule , into the hands of my god that gave it and my 
body to the earthe from whence it came to be buried in decent and 
xtian manner hopeinge of my eternall salvacon by the death and merritts 
of Jesus Christ my alone Savio r and redeemer doe in the feare of god 
make this my last will and Testam*. in manner and forme followeinge. 
And first I give and bequeath all the rents and profitts of all my coppy 
and customary lands and Tenements w th theire and every of theire 
appertenncs lyeinge and beinge in the sevall p'ishes of Ware, Widford, 
Hunsdon and Estweeke in the County of Hartford unto my Trusty and 
wellbeloved freinds William Curtis my sonne in lawe, Nicolas Camp the 
younger and John Keyes all of the sayde parishe of Nasinge for the 
space of eight yeares from the time of my decease quarterly to pay unto 
my sonne John Elliott the some of eight pounds a yeare of law full 
money of England for and towards the maintenance in the Univ'sity 
of Cambridge where he is a Scholler and the residue of rents 
and profitts I give and bequeath for and towards the bringing up of 
my youngest children That is to say Francis, Jacob, Mary and Lydia. 
And the Inheritance of all my sayde lands lyinge in the sayde parishes 
I give and bequeath as followeth. And first I give and bequeath unto 
Francis my youngest sonne and to his heires forever one parcell of land 
called crottwell croft conteyninge twoe acres more or lefs and one oth' 
p'cell of land called Coles Croft conteyninge one acre more or lefse and 
one parcell of land called Dameter in great Hyfeild one oth" parcell of 
land lyeinge in little westney by estimacon one acre and a halfe more or 
lefse and one parcell of land lyeinge in Souters Common meade con- 
teyninge halfe an acre w th all the rents and profitts after the end of 
sayde eight yeares expired and I give and bequeathe unto my sonne 
Jacob and to his heires forev all that my messuage or Tenement in the 
sayde parishe of Widford w th all the lands hereunto belonginge lyeinge 
in the sayde sev'all parishes of Widford, Ware, Hunsdon and Estwick 
w th all oth r the appurtenncs oth r than these lands before given to my 
sonne Francis w th all the rents and profitts of the same from and after 
the sayde eight yeares. Item I give and bequeathe unto my Daughter 
Lydia the some of fifty pounds of lawfull money to be payde unto her at 



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the age of eighteene yeares or day of marriage w ch shall first happen. 
Item I give unto my Daughter Mary the some of twenty pounds of like 
lawfull money to be payde unto her in like manner and I give unto my 
goddaughter Mary Curtis the some of three pounds of like money 
payable to her and the oth r and my will and mind is that if eith of my 
saide twoe daughters dye before theire sayde age or marreage, that then 
the Survivo 1 to have her part or legacy as is aforsayde and that if they 
both happen to dye before the sayde time that then the some of forty 
pounds thereof be payde to my sonne John and the residue to and 
amongst my younger children. Item my will and mind is that soe soone 
as may be after my decease my Executo rs make sale of all my Stock 
of Cattle come and all oth r goods and chatties that be abroade out 
of my house and of soe much of my moveable goodes w th in the house 
as in theire discretions cannot well be kept in theire own property till 
my sayde children be of age to use the same to such psons as will give 
most money for the same and the money riseinge thereof to employ for 
the use behoofe and maintenance of my sayde children to the best 
advantage they lawfully may or can and further, my mind and will is 
that my daughter Mary and my daughter Lidia shall have the right in 
the yellowe chamber and all that is in the same over and above theire 
parts in the rest of my goodes and my will and mind is that my sonne 
Phillip shall have soe much of my household implem ts as cannot well be 
removed w th out lofse for his part of my sayde goods if it rise to soe 
much if his part come not to the value then that hee may have them at 
a reasonable price if he will, before any other, and I give unto my sonne 
Francis foure silver spoones w ch were given him at his Christning over 
and above his part of my goodes and my will is that my daughter Mary 
Curtis have the keepinge of them till he be of age and for that my sayde 
daughter Mary Curtis hath heretofore had a goode and competent part 
of my goodes for her portion and preferment in marriage whereby she 
is already provided for I give unto her onely the some of five shillings to 
make her a small ringe to were in remembrance of my love to her and 
because my estate in goodes and chatties will hardly be sufficient for 
the education of my younge children, Francis, Jacob, Mary and Lydia. 
Therefore I more give unto my sayde Friends William Curtis Nicolas 
Camp and John Keyes whom I trust for theire bringinge up the some 
of tenn pounds a yeare yearely for the space of eighteene yeare after my 
decease out of my messuage and customary lands in the parishe of 
Nasinge or out of any part thereof for the better maintenance of my s d 
children, and the inheritance of my sayde messuage lands & Tenements 
w th theire appurtenncs w th all the rents and profitts thereof oth r than 
the sayde tenn pounds a yeare out of the same for the time aforesayde I 
give and bequeath unto my sonne Phillip Elliott and to his heires forever 
and my will and mind is that my sayde Friends pay all such fine or 
fines as shall be due to the Lord or Lords for theire sayde lands when 
they shalbe thereunto admitted and the rest of my Estate in goodes rents 
money debts or chatties with the profitts thereof, if any be to deliver to 



12 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

my sayde children by even and equall porcons and the end and expiracon 
of the sayde eighteene yeares, and for that cause I doe hereby ordeine and 
appoint my sayde beloved friends William Curtis Nicolas Camp the 
younger and John Keyes my full and sole Executo rs of this my last will 
hopeinge they will pforme the same accordinge to the trust w ch I doe 
repose in them and I give to eith r of them for theire paines herein token 
forty shillings apeece and my earnest request that Mr. John Dey of the 
sayde parishe of Nasinge Esquier would be aydinge and helpinge to my 
sayde Executo rs by his good councell and advice for the better execution 
thereof and my will and mind is that if any question or doubt doe arise 
between my s d Executo rs concerninge this my sayde will that they 
submitt themselves to be ordered and ruled by him w th out any further 
trouble or contencon. In witnes whereof I have hereunto putt my hand 
and seale the day and yeare first above written in the p'sence of Robert 
Woundon, Parnell Borum, John Dey, John Camp, William Curtis. 

Benedict Eliot. 
Proved March 28, 1628. 



Notes. "Yeoman" is defined as "a man of small estate in land, 
formerly ranking immediately below a gentleman or squire; a farmer." 

Blackstone has it: "A yeoman is he that hath free land of forty 
shillings by the year; who was anciently thereby qualified to serve on 
juries, vote for knight of the shire, and do any other act where the law 
requires one that is probus et legalis homo." 

The word is also defined as belonging to a class of those small land- 
holders, once so important a section of the English Commons, coming 
next to the gentry, but now hardly known as a class. 

The word is occasionally found in the early records of New England. 

"Crazy," an unusual word in wills, means weak : broken. 

"Coppy and customary lands." "Copy-hold," "a tenure of land or 
houses by copy of court-roll." "A tenure of estate by copy of court-roll ; 
or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls 
made by the steward of the lord's court." 

"Customary," according to a law or a right established by some custom 
or long-established usage." 

Mr. Winters, author of "Memorials of the Pilgrims," informed the 
writer that it was "customary" to hold up a rod horizontally, under 
which a tenant passed, in order to acquire from the lord of the manor 
a certain title (not fee-simple) to real estate. In his opinion, "the 
inheritance of my sayde lands and Tenements," was about the same 
as a recommendation to the lord of the manor. 

"Croft," a small farm or field. Some of the parcells of land men- 
tioned as "crottwell croft," "Coles Croft," "Dameter in great llvfeild," 
"Souters Comon," it would be very difficult, perhaps impossible, to locate. 

"Scholler." Stormath defines this word, "An undergraduate partly 
supported by the revenues of the college." 

"Messuage," "a dwelling-house and offices, with the land attached." 
"A dwelling-house, including certain outhouses and grounds, as parcel 
of the house. 

"My goddaughter Mary Curtis." Bennett Eliot had a granddaughter, 
Mary Curtis, baptized at Nazeing, March 11, 1620. This word is defined, 
"A female child for whom one becomes sponsor at baptism." 

"My daughter Mary Curtis." "Mary" should be Sarah, probably a 
clerical error. 



PART II 

THE FAMILY OF 

JOHN ELIOT AND HANNAH MOUNTFORD 
AND THEIR DESCENDANTS 



"We cannot say that we ever saw him walking any whither but that 
he was therein walking with God ; whereever he satt he had God by him, 
and it was in the Everlasting Arms of God that he slept at night." 



'I think that we can never love and honor this man of God enough." 

Shepard. 



/ 

THE FAMILY OF 

JOHN ELIOT AND HANNAH MOUNTFORD 
AND THEIR DESCENDANTS 



JOHN 1 , Minister and Missionary to the Indians in America 
and our great ancestor ; baptized at Widford, Hertfordshire, 
England, August 5, 1604 ; died May 21, 1690. 

He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, England, 1618- 
22 ; taught in the school of Thomas Hooker at Little Baddow, 
Essex, England, for part of the time before he came to America, 
which was in 163 1, in the ship Lion. He landed in Boston 
November 4, took Mr. Wilson's place in the Boston church 
during Mr. Wilson's absence in England, was settled at Rox- 
bury over the church in 1632. He married Sept. 4, 1632, Hanna 
Mountford, who came from England that year. [Hanna vari- 
ously spelled Ann, Anna, Hanna, Hannah ; Mountford is found 
as Mountforth, Mountfort, Mumforth, Mumfort, Mumford.] 

In the records of the Roxbury church he wrote the name of 
his wife "Mrs. Ann Eliot." In another part he wrote "he left 
his intended wife in England to come the next yeare." Again : 
"He left behind him in England a vertuous young gentlewoman 
whom he had persued and purposed a Marriage unto and she 
coming here the year following, that marriage was consummated 
in the month of October A.D. 1632." (C. M.) 

Nothing is yet known of the family of Hanna, but it is to 
be hoped that an enthusiastic descendant will some day make 
researches in England which will give us the true ancestry of 
this great and good woman. For the estimate of her character 
and abilities, her skill in the healing art, and her husband's high 
tribute to her, see Part III. 

For Events in the Life of John Eliot, his Bibliography, and 
other material, see Part III. 



1 6 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

CHILDREN. 

2. i. Hannah 2 , b. Sept. 17, 1633 ; d. Feb. 9, 1708. 

In the life of her father, published in 1691, Cotton Mather 
writes : "This Gentlewoman is yet alive, and one well-approved 
for her Piety and Gravity" (C. M. 7.). 

Jan. 18, 1705. In Sewall's Diary is: "I visited the widow 
Hannah Glover, who is blind" (p. 135, vol. 2). 

Feb. 9, 170 8 / 9 "Mrs. Hannah Glover dies in the 76 th year 
of her Age ; was widow of Mr. Habakkuk Glover, daughter of 
Mr. John Eliot, who married here and this daughter was born 
at Roxbury in the Fall 1633, just about the time Mrs. Rock 
was born. So that this Gentlewoman, though born in N. E. 
passed not only 60 but 70 years, and became a Great-Grand- 
mother in our Israel." — (S. D. vol. ii. p. 250.) 

"Feria Sexta, Feb. 11 th , 170 8 / 9 Mrs. Hannah Glover is buried 
in a Tomb in the new burying place, Beavers, Winthrop, Sewall, 
Addington Sargent, Foyerwather, Checkley. Very Cold day." 
— (S. D. vol. ii. p. 250.) 

"Pakemit," "here my dear Son (John) Taught, who is 
deceased & these have (without the least motion of mine) called 
my son-in-law Mr. Habbakuk Glover to teach and order y m , who 
hath this Summer discharged the work to theire good acceptance 
& satisfaction." — (John 1 Eliot, in "Some Correspondence" &c.) 

She was married May 4, 1653 by Thomas Dudley, Deputy 
Governor of Massachusetts, to Habbakuk Glover of Dorchester, 
Mass. He was the son of John Glover, one of the early settlers 
of that town. He was born in England, May 13, 1628; d. in 
1693, aged 65. Their descendants may be traced in the Glover 
Genealogy. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Hannah, b. July 3, 1654; d. Sept. 3, 1654. 

2. Rebecca, b. July 24, 1655. She was married first to Thomas 

Smith of Boston, second to Capt. Thomas Clark of Boston. 

Both recorded to have been baptized by the Apostle. Two more chil- 
dren are mentioned in some histories, but we find no authority. 

-f- 3. ii. John 2 , b. Aug. 31, 1636; d. Oct. 13, 1668. 
+ 4. iii. Joseph 2 , b. Dec. 20, 1638; d. May 24, 1694. 
-f- 5. iv. Samuel 2 , b. June 22, 1641 ; d. Nov. 1, 1664. 
6. v. Aaron 2 , b. Feb. 19, 1643 5 d. Nov. 19, 1655. 
+ 7. vi. P>enjamin 2 , b. Jan. 29, 1646; d. Oct. 15, 1687. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 1 7 

3. JOHN 2 (John 1 ), A.B. Harvard Coll. 1656. Minister at 
Newton, Mass., and assisted his father in preaching to the 
Indians. In the class of 1656, H. C, numbering eight, his name 
is the sixth in the list. In the early days of the college, the 
place of the name of a student in his class is supposed to have 
been determined by the social position of his family. 

When he received his second degree, his subject was: 
"Utrum anima sit subjectum capax cognitionis infinitas." 
Affirmat Respondens Johannes Eliotess. 

For not less than seven years subsequent to his graduation 
he received compensation from the Commissioners of the United 
Colonies for his services to the Indians. July 20, 1684, he was 
ordained minister to the First Church (then just organized) at 
New Cambridge, now Newton, Mass. 

Gookin says he "was not only pastor of an English church 
. . . and a very excellent preacher in the English tongue, but 
also, for sundry years, he preached the gospel to the Indians, 
once a fortnight constantly at Pakemit (Stoughton) and 
sometimes at Natick and other places: and the most judicious 
Christian Indians esteemed very highly of him, as a most 
excellent preacher in their language, as I have often heard them 
say." 

Morton says : "He was a person excellently endowed, and 
accomplished with Gifts of Nature, Learning and Grace ; of 
comely Proportion, ruddy Complexion, cheerful Countenance ; 
of quick Apprehension, solid Judgement, excellent Prudence ; 
Learned both in Tongues and Arts for one of his time, and 
studiously intense in acquiring more knowledge. His x\bilities 
and Acceptation in the Ministry did excell ; His Piety, Faith, 
Love, Humility, Self-deniall, and Zeal, did eminently shine upon 
all occasions. . . In a word there was so much of God in him, 
that all the wise and godly who knew him, loved and honored 
him in the Lord, and bewailed his death." 

Hubbard says: "For his years he was "nulli secundus" as 
to all literature and other gifts, both of nature and grace, which 
made him so generally acceptable to all that had opportunity of 
partaking of his labors, or the least acquaintance with him." 

Homer says : "A tender affection subsisted between him and 
the people of his charge. . . . He fell sick with an eruption of 
blood, and died 13, October, 1668." 



1 8 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Cotton Mather says : "He bore his father's name and had his 
father's grace. He was a person of notable accomplishments ; 
and a lively, zealous and acute preacher, not only to the English 
at Nezv Cambridge, but also to the Indians thereabout. He 
grew so fast that he was found ripe for heaven many years ago ; 
and upon his death-bed uttered such penetrating things as could 
proceed from none but one upon the borders and confines of 
eternal glory." 

One of these "penetrating things" was found in a "fragment 
of some students' note book," of which the following is a copy. 
(See the "Congregational Quarterly," vol. vii, pp. 193-4.) 

"A speech of Mr. John Eliot upon his Death Bed. It being 
said to him, S r yo r crown is even ready for you : to which he 
answered "my crown is ready : Christ has been a great while 
preparing a mansion for me, to which I am now going. Oh w* 
a solemn thing it is to appear before Jesus Christ, who shall be 
the judge of all the world! who appeared to John in ye 
Revelation with eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet of fine 
brass, yet as he took John by his right hand, and not by his left, 
so will he take me by my right hand and not by my left, and 
present me before the Father, and the Father will receive me, 
and the Son, the mediator of ye covenant will receive me, even 
me, a worm, that lie here spitting in such a condition, even Christ 
will kiss me, with ye kisses of his mouth, and I shall kiss him 
and not be despised. Oh ! wonder of mercy ! that Christ should 
love such a worm as I am, y* can love him but a little, yet do 
love him with all my soul. Oh, what a wonder of mercy y* this 
little soul of mine should enjoy such blessedness that am so 
unworthy of it. I could put myself under a- dunghill I am so 
vile in myself, yet in the robes of my Saviour, those glorious 
robes of Christ's righteousness, how beautiful ! how comely ! 
how glorious ! Glory ! Glory ! Glory ! and if I had strength, 
I could even do as Abraham did, fall upon my face and laugh 
in sense of Christ's love to me, and blessed be God, I have done 
it many a time in my study ; many a time have I fallen upon 
my face in sense of Christ's love to me, many a time have I 
supped with Christ in my study, and many a time hath Christ 
supped with me there, and as Paul said, thanks be to God, who 
always gives us cause to triumph in Christ, in him I do triumph 
and will triumph though vile in myself ; yet as Christ saith, I 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 19 

have loved you with an everlasting love, therefore with loving 
kindness have I drawn thee, therefore as Christ saith, look to 
me and be saved all ye of y e earth ; and I do look to him and 
shall be saved. And these things have I preached according to 
y e narrowness that words could express and some have received 
them, and I have heard it from them, and others have done as 
they have done." 

His mother said to him, "You have enjoyed too much of 
heaven here to live long here ; you are now going to your 
Brother Sam 11 and to your dear wife," and he answered, "Oh to 
my dear Saviour ! and I shall go to y e old patriarchs, to 
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I shall go to the spirits of just 
men made perfect, and have communion with them, tho' I know 
not in what way and manner." 

After some more words he said he did believe God would 
reduce New England into an heap, and leave it a poor and 
afflicted people, y l should say, blessed is he y 1 cometh in y e name 
of y e Lord. "Boston and Massachusetts Collony is coming 
down! down! down! apace." Transcrib d January 20, 1712-13. 

Sept. 3, 1668. The Commissioners of the United Colonies 
write to the Hon. Rob fc . Boyle : "Wee do not understand that 
there lyeth any discouragement upon the labourers in the worke, 
yet we cannot but be sensible that the Lord in his wise provi- 
dence is drawing a black line over it by his afflicting hand upon 
young Mr. Eliot who lyeth under a consumption distemper so 
that his continuance is much feared." (S. C. p. 20.) 

John Eliot and his first wife were among the first to be 
buried in the graveyard at Newton, she in 1665, he in 1668. 
His grave is within a few feet of the pulpit where he preached. 
The monumental inscription as given in Barber's Historical Col- 
lections of Massachusetts is : 

"Rev. John Eliot A. M. son of the Apostolic Eliot, assistant 
Indian missionary. First pastor of the First Church, ordained 
on the day of its gathering, July 20 (Aug. 1 N. S.) 1664, eight 
years after the forming of a Society distinct from Cambridge, 
died Oct. 11. 1668, Ae. xxxiii. Learned, Pious and Beloved 
by English and Indians, "My dying counsel is, secure an interest 
in the Lord Jesus Christ and this will carry you safely to the 
world's end." As a preacher, lively, accomplished, zealous, and 
Heaven received his ascending Spirit, 155 years since." Erected 
by the town, 1823. 



20 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

In King's "Handbook of Newton, Massachusetts, by M. F. 
Sweetzer," is a picture of a monument to the first settlers of 
that place. John Eliot's name is in the list. 

For his will and inventory, see O. E. G., pp. 138-42. 

He married, first, Sarah, dau. of Thomas Willett, first mayor 
of New York City. She was b. May 4, 1643, d. June 13, 1665 ; 
he married, second, Elizabeth, dau. of Major Gen. Daniel 
Gookins of Cambridge, Mass., who d. Nov. 30, 1700. 

CHILD, BY FIRST WIFE. 

8. i. Sarah 3 , baptized Sept. 21, 1662; d. May 23, 1687. 

She married Nov. 16, 1681, Rev. and Hon. John Bolles of 
Roxbury, Mass., who was baptized by the Apostle Eliot June 
27, 1653, and was later married by him. He was the son of 
John Bolles and Elizabeth Heath of Roxbury, and the grandson 

of John Bolles and Dorothy , who came from England, 

and were admitted to the church about 1640. 

CHILD. 

I. John, b. Mar. 15, 1685; d. Mar. 28, 1737. Married first, Lydia 
Checkley, second a Miss White. Children, four by first, and 
one by second wife. 

a. Mary, b. 1709; d. 1790. 

b. John. 

c. Samuel. 

d. William. 

e. Joshua. (See O. E. G. appendix, p. 143.) 

a. Mary Bolles married Benjamin Lynde, Chief Justice of the 
Province of Canada, Nov. 1, 1731, and had three children. 
Mary. 
Hannah. 
Lydia. 

Mary Lynde married Hon. Andrew Oliver of Salem, whose son, 
Thomas Fitch Oliver, married Sarah Pynchon of Salem, whose son, 
Daniel Oliver, married Mary Robinson Pullen of Salem, whose son, Fitz- 
Edward Pullen Oliver, married Susan Lawrence Mason of Boston, who 
had the following children : 

Charles Edward Oliver, b. Aug. 29, 1868. 
Andrew Oliver, b. Nov. 1, 1869. 
Mary Mason Oliver, b. Mar. 28, 1871. 
Edward Pullen Oliver, b. Oct. 3, 1873. 
Everard Lawrence Oliver, b. Jan. II, 1876. 
Susan Lawrence Oliver, b. Feb. 15, 1881. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 2 1 

A brother of Fitz-Edward Pullen Oliver, by name Andrew, married 
Adelaide Imlay, and had children : 

Mary Pullen Imlay Oliver. 

Katherine Pynchon Oliver, m. Geo. F. Crane of New 

York. 
Ethel Digby Lynde Oliver, m. Rev. Charles Smith Lewis, 

of Lafayette, Ind. 
William Pynchon Oliver, of Morristown, N. J., m. Lydia 

Winthrop Seabury. 

A sister of Fitz-Edward Pullen Oliver, Catherine Sewall Oliver, m. 
Dr. William Edward Coale of Baltimore, and left one son, 

George Oliver Coale. 

Lydia Lynde m. Sept. 30, 1766, Rev. William Walter, rector of Trinity 
Church, Boston, and had six children. 

Lynde, b. 1769. 
William, b. 1771. 
Thomas. No issue. 
Mary Lynde. No issue. 
Harriet Tyng, b. May 16, 1776. 
Arthur Maynard. No issue. 

Lynde Walter m. first, Maria Van Buskirk, and had Jane and Maria; 
m. second, Ann Minshull, and had Lynde (founder of Boston 
Transcript), Louisa, Ann, Caroline, and Cornelia Wells. 

(Cornelia Wells Walter m. William Boardman Richards in 1847, and 
had Elise Boardman Richards and William R. Richards, both of whom 
live in Boston; and two others who died.) 

William Walter m. Sarah Bicker, who died in 181 1. They had six 
children, of whom Harriet Lynde Walter m. Capt. Wm. M. Hunter in 
1817 and had a numerous progeny. Another daughter, Eliza Bicker 
Walter, m. Capt. George Smith, and had 

Thomas Kilby Smith, b. Sept. 23, 1820; d. Dec. 14, 1887. 

Thomas Kilby Smith was a General of distinction in the Civil War. 
He was born in Boston, studied and practiced law in Cincinnati, occupied 
several positions under Government until 1861, when he entered the army 
as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 54th Ohio, and after a brilliant career as a 
soldier became Brigadier-General in 1863, and was mustered out of 
service in 1866, became United States Consul at Panama and later an 
active business man. He married Elizabeth Budd McCullough of New 
Jersey, and had five sons and four daughters : Elizabeth Barnett, Arabella 
Theresa, Walter George, Theodore Dehon, Charles Adrian Worthington, 
Helen Grace, Caroline G. M. E., William Butler Duncan, and Thomas 
Kilby Smith, Jr. The latter lives in Philadelphia, and is a lawyer and an 
historical student. 



2 2 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Harriet Tyng Walter m. John Odin of Boston, Jan. 4, 1804, and had 
eight children, of whom John Odin, Jr., b. Jan. 16, 1808, m. first Ann 
Frances Vose, and second her sister Louisa Hayward Vose. He had six 
children, three by each wife. 

John Odin, 3d, b. Nov. 16, 1839 > d. 
Anna Frances Odin, b. May 24, 1842. 
Louisa Vose Odin. 

Harriet Walter Odin, b. Apr. 30, 1852 ; d. 
Harriet Louisa Odin, b. Apr. 29, 1854; d. 
Esther Kettell Odin, b. July 9, 1857. 

CHILD OF JOHN 2 ELIOT BY SECOND WIFE. 

-j- 9. ii. John 3 , b. Apr. 28, 1667; d. Mar. 25, 1719. 



JOSEPH 2 (John 1 ), A.B. Harv. Coll. 1658. Minister at 
Northampton, Mass., and at Guilford, Conn. All the descend- 
ants of John 1 Eliot, having his surname, have Joseph 2 for their 
ancestor. 

In Sept. 1658, the year of his graduation, "Mr. Joseph Eliot 
being tendered by his father to bee Imployed in the Indian worke 
and himself e manifesting his Reddiness to attend the same, was 
promised due Incurragment according as hee shall Improve 
himselfe in learning the Language." Compensation to the 
amount of about £10 was annually given him for three years for 
this worke. 

July 4, 1661. His name appears in the list of those who signed 
the Church Covenant at Northampton, Mass. Later he was 
associated with the Rev. Eleazer Mather in the ministry of the 
Northampton Church, with whom he must have had very 
friendly relations, as the latter preached the sermon when he 
was settled over the church in Guilford. It is natural to sup- 
pose this duty would have fallen to the lot of his father, "The 
Apostle to the Indians," but, although he lived twenty-six years 
after his son's settlement, it is not known that he ever visited 
him. 

Jan. 1, 1663, the town of Northampton voted to build a house 
for him, and offered other inducements if he would permanently 
settle with them, but he was prevailed upon to go to Guilford. 

After the departure of the Rev. Mr. Whitfield, the father 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 23 

of the plantation, at Menuncatuck (now Guilford and Madison, 
Conn.), in 1650, and of his son-in-law, the Rev. John Higginson, 
in 1659, the church there was apparently like a ship without a 
rudder in a storm at sea. Several ministers tried in vain to 
fill the vacancy. The Rev. Thomas Ruggles, pastor of the 
town, 1729-1770, tells of their deliverance as follows: 

"After they, i. e. the inhabitants of Guilford, had Waded thr° 
these Troublesome times, Providence provided for them a pastor 
after God's own hart, to feed them with Knowledge and 
Understanding. For, about the year '64 or '65, The Renowned 
Mr. Joseph Eliot, Son of the famous and Pious Mr. John Eliot 
of Roxbury, The Indian New England Apostle, was Called and 
Introduced, and by the Laying on of the Hands of the Pres- 
bytery was Ordained to the pastoral office in the Church. Mr. 
Mather of North Hampton with whom Mr. Eliot had lived for 
some time before he came to Guilford being the Chief in the 
ordination." 

Just when he left Northampton for Guilford is unknown, but 
his letter to his brother Benjamin from there is dated May 18, 
1664, from which it may be inferred that Guilford was then 
his home. Even the scanty records of those early days show 
that his life must have been a busy one, and that he was called 
upon many times to assist in the decision of important questions. 

The Rev. Thomas JR.uggles refers to him in these words : 
"Mr. Joseph Eliot was for many years the conspicuous minister 
of Guilford, whose great abilities as a divine, a politician, and 
a physician, were justly admired, not only among his own 
people, but throughout the colony, where his praises are in the 
churches." 

And again he adds : "The Church and Town Greatly flour- 
ished under his successful Ministry, and Rose to Great Fame in 
the Colony." 

May 16, 1668. At a Court of Election held at Hartford, 
Conn., he was appointed one of a Committee to find some 
expedient for the peace of the churches. 

Oct. 8, 1668, the same committee was appointed to settle some 
religious differences at Windsor, Conn. 

Dec. 17, 1675. Appointed on a committee "to make diligent 
search for those evils amongst us, which have stirred up the 
Lord's anger against us, that they being discovered may, by 
2 



24 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

repentance and reformation, be thrown out of o r camp and 
hearts ; and they were also desired to send up their conclusions 
to the Councill, the following weeke, by Mr. Wakeman and 
Mr. Eliott." 

Nov. 8, 1676. "The County" (New Haven, Conn.) Court, 
being sensible of a hopeful advantage to the furtherance of 
religion and reformation, by setting an able Lecture where it 
might be aptest and the greatest concourse to attend the same, 
doe recommend it, and desire the Rev. Mr. Eliot to begin a 
monthly lecture at New Haven the first Wednesday in March 
next and soe continue until this court shall appoint some other 
to succeed." 

Although he must have been chiefly occupied with his 
ministerial duties, yet great reliance was placed upon him, as 
a man of science and a physician. The Guilford records relate 
that in 1683-4 "poyson was to be gotten of the Rev. Mr. Eliot 
with his directions for the improving it for the poysoning of 
wolves." 

He sent some obscure cases to John Winthrop, Jr., at New 
London, as in this instance, with a note : "Much honored, Y e 
man John Megs his wife hath a gentle beginning of fits of 
flatus hypochondriacus y 1 stir upon griefe, yet without violence 
for the present, in fears they may increase help is desired in the 
use of means if you shal please to take notice of the case. 

S r I am humbly yours to serve 
Joseph Eliot. 

(Guil. 20. 1. 1673) 

It may not be out of the way to say that "fits of flatus hypo- 
chondriacus" is a disorder known nowadays as "hysterics." 

In 1681 the General Court at Hartford, Conn., made a grant 
of land of 200 acres to Mr. Eliot. Most, if not all, of this tract 
is owned by one of his descendants, Mr. Franklin Henry Hart, 
of New Haven, Conn. 

Dec. 6, 1681. The people at Branford, Conn., "conclude to 
seek God's help in regard to obtaining a minister. They invite 
the Rev. Mr. Elliott of Guilford to come and carry on a day of 
humiliation and prayer with them." 

Oct. 16, 1687. Many attended the funeral of Mr. Benjamin 
Eliot at Roxbury Mass. Some kame at noon to hear Mr. 
Joseph Eliot preach. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 25 

Oct. 18, 1687. Mr. Joseph Eliot preached at Roxbury lecture. 
"Mr. Eliot said the King was turned a Puritan and he was 
ravished at it." 

Oct. 27, 1687. Mr. Joseph Eliot preached at Roxbury. the 
Lecture from i Cor. 2. 2. parallels the diseases of New England 
with Corinth ; among others mentions, itching ears, hearkening 
after false Teachers and consequently Drinking in false 
Principles and despising, sitting loose from the true Teachers. 
He advised them to fly into the arms of a crucified Christ, 
because probably might have no whither else to goe. 

May 29, 1688. Judge Sewall in his Diary writes : "Mr. 
Joseph Eliot preaches at Roxbury when I goe." On the next 
day, May 30, is this astonishing record by the Judge: "Mr. 
Joseph Eliot here says the two days wherein he buried his Wife 
and Son, were the best he ever had in the world." The editors 
of the diary add this foot-note: "The kindest construction 
should be put on this remark of the bereaved husband and 
father." 

In Sewall's diary, there are a number of recorded visits to 
Roxbury and Boston. One under date of Nov. 21, 1692, is: 
Mr. Joseph Eliot of Guilford, visited supped and prayed with 
us, went not away till half an hour after nine at night." 

From the town of Guilford he received valuable grants of 
land and other favors. Much of the land has remained the 
property of his descendants and is now owned and occupied by 
Edward Eliot. 

His will, dated Dec. 1, 1693, is printed in the previous edition 
of the Eliot Genealogy, pp. 145-7. He left " ten pounds 
towards the buying of a bell." One was bought June 6, 1725, 
which having been recast and increased not less than four 
times, still calls the people to religious worship. 

A fruit-bearing pear tree was standing in his home lot until 
1865, when it was blown down. 

His autograph and some other of his handwriting is owned 
by Dr. Ellsworth Eliot of New York City. 

The Rev. Thomas Ruggles says: "After this Burning and 
Shining Light had ministered to this Good people About 30 
years, he deceased May 24. 1694. to the inexpressible Grief of 
his beloved flock, whose memory is not forgotten to this Day." 

His grave, unmarked, is upon the east side of Guilford Green, 
but the following circular tells of his perpetual Memorial : 



26 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

That his good name and the knowledge of his valuable 
services may not perish from the earth, and that his memory 
may be lastingly associated with useful deeds, Dr. Ellsworth 
Eliot and many other of his descendants have decided to establish 
as his memorial a scholarship in Yale College, to be known as 
"The Joseph Eliot Memorial Scholarship,'' under the following 
rules : 

I. The scholarship is intended for Academical students only. 
II. The fund for this scholarship shall be managed by the "Presi- 
dent and Fellows of Yale College in New Haven." 

III. The usual percentage for managing trust-funds may be charged 

by the College, if the President so direct. 

IV. The names of the subscribers shall be kept in a book which shall 

be deposited in the archives of the College, when this fund 
shall amount to $10000. 
V. The President shall decide all disputes respecting this fund, and 

his interpretation of these rules shall be decisive. 
VI. One per cent, upon the principal shall be annually added thereto, 
until it shall amount to $10000. The remainder of the interest 
shall be appropriated to a descendant of Joseph Eliot, bearing 
the name of Eliot, under the rules hereinafter mentioned. 

VII. When the principal shall amount to $5000, one per cent, having 

been deducted, and added to the principal as directed in Rule 
VI, should there be no descendant of Joseph Eliot bearing the 
name of Eliot entitled to receive the interest, it shall then be 
given to any other descendant of Joseph Eliot who has 
another family name. 

VIII. When the principal shall amount to $10000, should there be no 

descendant of Joseph Eliot entitled to receive the interest, it 
shall then be given to a student who is a legal resident of the 
town of Guilford, Conn. ; or secondly, to a descendant of 
any legal resident of that town. Should there be no descend- 
ant of Joseph Eliot, nor any student from Guilford, nor a 
descendant of a legal resident of that town, entitled to receive 
the interest on this Fund, then the interest shall be used for 
buying books for the College Library. 

IX. All students receiving the interest must maintain a grade of 
scholarship in their classes, which shall give them rank in the 
first half of the members thereof. 
X. A student who incurs the serious discipline of the college 
authorities shall not have the benefit of the scholarship while 
he is the subject of discipline. 

XI. Should there be more than one applicant for the benefit of the 
scholarship, it shall be given to the one who has the first rank 
in scholarship. 




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John (No. i) first generation. 

Joseph (No. 4) second generation. 

Jared (No. 14) Abiall (No. 17) third generation. 

Joseph (No. 29) Nathaniel (No. 35) fourth generation. 

Timothy (No. 38) fourth generation. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 27 

XII. The President shall be allowed to add to the foregoing rules, 
provided these remain unchanged. 

Joseph married, first, about 1675-6, Sarah, dau. of William 
and Martha (Burton) Brenton, of Rhode Island. 

Governor William Brenton was born at Hammersmith, 
England, came to Boston in 1633, went soon to Rhode Island, 
where he was in high office in 1638. He was Governor of 
Rhode Island in 1666-7-8. He lived in Taunton, Mass., 1670-2, 
and died at Newport, R. I., in 1674. William Brenton, whose 
wife was Martha Burton, in his will made Feb. 9, 1673, and 
proved at Newport Nov. 13, 1674, leaves to his daughter Sarah 
Brenton "a farm on Cononicut" etc., and Ml / 18 of Merrimack 
lands." Executor, son Jahleel. He left seven children. 

From a deed recorded May 22, 1706, we quote the following: 

William Wilson, of Kenilworth merchant, and Mehitable, his wife of 
New Haven Co. Conn, for £64 ye last April past was two years, did grant 
&c. unto Jonathan Law of Mil ford, J4 part of a farm, called Green Hill 
Farm of 640 acres in Kingstown in Petticomscott purchase, which said 
farm ye four children of Mr. Joseph Elliott of Guilford, which he had 
by his first wife Sarah Brenton, did agree with Jahleel Brenton of R. I. 
executor of old Mr. Brenton, to take ye said Green Hill farm in lieu and 
stead of all their rights in a certain house and lot at Newport R. I. 
and x /i part of Petticomscott purchase, which belonged to them from 
their mother." 
Dated March 1705. 
Signed William Wilson 

Mehitable Wilson 

CHILDREN, BY FIRST WIFE. 

10. i. Mehitabel 3 , b. Oct. 4. 1676. 

Married William Wilson, merchant, of Killingworth, Conn. 
She d. Apr. 4, 1723. Her will follows: 

"In the name of God, Amen, the 15 th of May Anno Domini 1722: I 
Mehitabel Wilson of Gilford in the County of New Haven and Colony 
of Connecticut in New England, widdow, being sickly and weake in Body 
but of sound mind and memory thanks be given unto God therefore and 
Calling to mind the mortallity of my body, and knowing it is appointed 
for all men once to Dye. Do make and ordain this my Last will and 
testament that is to say Principally and first of all I Give and Recommend 
my soul into the hands of God that Gave it, and my Body to the earth 
to be buryed in Decent Christian Buriall at the discretion of my executor 
nothing Doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall Receive the 



28 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELTOT. 

same again by the mighty power of God. And as touching the worldly 
estate with which it hath pleased God to bless me in this life, I Give 
Devise and dispose of the same in manner and form following,' my just 
Debts and funerall Charges being first paid," 

Imprimis, I give and bequeath unto my Loving Brother Abiall Eliot five 
Pounds money and a mourning ring. 

Item, I give and bequeath unto my Loveing sister Mary Eliot my Case 
of Drawers and Largest Ring, five pounds and the half of my waring 
aparrell excepting what I have hereafter Given. 

Item, I Give and bequeath unto my Loveing Cousin Hannah Eliot, 
(daughter of my Loveing Brother Mr. Jared Eliot) my hart and hand 
ring, my Gold snaps, a light silk Coloured petticoat and mantle and 
fifty pounds in money. 

Item, I Give and bequeath unto my loveing cosen Samuel Eliot (son 
of my Brother Jared Eliot) my Diamond ring and my farm at Merri- 
mack River being a hundred and twenty-five acres. 

Item, I Give and bequeath unto my loveing Cousin Aaron Eliot (son of 
my brother Jared Eliot) my silver salt seller my land at Allom Brook 
being twenty-five acres, and ten pounds in money. 

Item, I Give and bequeath unto my loveing Cousen Augustus Eliot 
(son of my s d Brother Jared Eliot) my silver Dram Cup and twenty 
pounds in money. 

Item, I Give to my Loveing sister Mrs. Hannah Eliot a mourning 
Ring and all the Remainder of my Estate I Give and bequeath unto my 
Loveing Brother Mr. Jared Eliot, whom I do hereby constitute make and 
ordain the sole Executor of this my last will and testament and I do 
hereby utterly Disallow Revoak and disanull all and every other former 
Testaments Wills Legacys and bequests and Executors by me in any wise 
before named willed and bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming this and 
no other to be my last will and Testament. In witness whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written. 

Mehetabel Willson [seal] 
Ebenezer Hurd 
Elnathan Hurd 
John Kelcey 

Admitted to Probate Apr. 24, 1723 

Copied from the original in the Probate Office at Guilford, Conn. 

11. ii. Ann 3 , b. Dec. 12, 1677; d. Nov. 16, 1703. 

She married Dec. 20, 1698, Hon. Jonathan Law of Milford, 
deputy governor of Connecticut from 1725 to 1742; governor 
1 742- 1 75 1. Governor Law was descended from Richard Law 
and Margaret Kilbourne — settlers of Wethersfield in 1635-6. 
Governor Law was married five times, Ann Eliot being his first 
wife. He married second, Feb. 14, 1705, Abigail Arnold of 
Rhode Island (issue, one son). He married third. Aug. 1, 1706. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 29 

Abigail Andrew, daughter of Rev. Samuel Andrew, for fifty 
years pastor of the church at Mil ford — one of the founders of 
Yale College and for several years the second rector (or Presi- 
dent) of the College. [Abigail Andrew's mother was the 
daughter of Hon. Robert Treat, Governor of Connecticut for 
thirty years, founder of Newark, N. J., leader of the Connecticut 
forces in King Philip's War, and one of the noblest figures in 
colonial history.] There were four children of this marriage, 
of whom the eldest son, Jahleel, b. Feb. 5, 1707, was the grand- 
father of Mary Law, who married Wm. H. Eliot (see No. 211). 
Fourth, Governor Law marrie d in 1730 Widow Sarah Burr of 
Fairfield. His fifth wife, married in _ i 73Q1 was Eunice Hale, 
sister of his son-in-law, Rev. Samuel Hale. By her he left a 
distinguished posterity. 

CHILDREN OF ANN ELIOT AND GOVERNOR JONATHAN LAW. 

1. Jahleel, died in infancy. 

2. Sarah, died at age of sixteen. — 

3. Ann, b. Aug. 1, 1702; d. Aug. 23, 1775. She married Jan. 12, 

1725, Samuel Hall of Cheshire, Conn. (Yale 1716). Theodore 
Parsons Hall of Detroit, Mich., is descended from this line as 
follows : 

Ann Law m. Rev. Samuel Hall, b. 1695, d. 1776 (Yale 1716), of Wal- 
lingford and Cheshire. 

Their son, Hon. Brenton Hall of Wallingford and Meriden (d. 1820, 
aged 82), m. Minta Lament Collins (d. 1782, aged 88). Their son, 
Wm. Brenton Hall, M.D., b. 1764, d. 1809, aged 45 (Yale 1786), 
m. Mehitable Parsons, daughter of Major General Samuel H. Parsons 
(Harv. 1756; Hon. Yale 1781). She was b. at Lynn, Conn., 1772, d. 1828. 
Their son, Hon. Samuel Holden Hall, b. Middletown, Conn., 1804, d. 
Binghamton, N. Y., 1877, m. Emeline C. Bulkley, b. Rocky Hill, Conn., 
1798, d. Ballston, N. Y., 1855. Their son, Theodore Parsons Hall, b. at 
Rocky Hill, Conn., in 1835, of Tonnancour, Grosse Pointe, Mich., 
m. Alexandria Louise Godfroy of Detroit, and had the following: 



1. Stella Holden Hall, b. i860; m. 1880, ) AT . .. , 

Wm. T. St. Auburn. \ N ° ***"*- 

2. Josephine Emeline Hall, b. 1863; m. -i Dau., Josephine De Navarre 

1886, Maj. R. J. C. Irvine, 9th U. S. [- Irvine, b. 1887 in Augusta, 

Inf. ) Ga. 

3. Nathalie Heloise Hall, b. 1866 ; m. ) Son, Brenton Hall Scott, b. 

1886, James Lee Scott. i 1890, Ballston, N. Y. 



30 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

) Theodore Hall Fiiger, b. 
4. Marie Navarre Hall, b. 1872; m. I Manila, P. I., 1901. 

1000, Capt. Fredk. W. Fiiger, 13th > Fredk. Wm. Fiiger, b. 
U. S. Inf. Angel Island, Ft. Mc- 

J Dowell, 1903. 

Living children and grandchildren 9th and 10th generations from Rev. 
John Eliot. 

For further details, see Hall Ancestry by Charles S. Hall. 

12. iii. Jemima, b. Nov. 14, 1679. 

Married Nov. 14, 1699, Rev. John Woodbridge 4 of West 
Springfield, Mass. The Woodbridge ancestry is an interesting 
one and has been compiled by Louis Mitchell of New London, 
Conn., brother of Donald G. Mitchell (Ik Marvel) of New 
Haven. 

Rev. John Woodbridge 1 of Stanton, Wiltshire, England, m. 
Sarah Parker ; their son Rev. John 2 , who came to New England 
in the ship Mary & John 1634, m. Mercy Dudley, and lived at 
Newbury, Mass. Their son, Rev. John 3 , m. Abigail Leete, 
daughter of Governor Leete, and lived at Wethersfield, Conn., 
and were the parents of Rev. John 4 , who married Jemima Eliot. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Abigail, b. Dec. 20, 1700; m. John Mixer of West Springfield. 

2. John, b. Dec. 25, 1702; Y. C. 1726; d. Sept. 10, 1783; minister 

of South Hadley; m. first Tryphena Ruggles and had Samuel, 
Emereniana, Tryphena, John and Mary; m. second, Mrs. 
Martha Strong and had Jahleel, ^Eneas, Dr. Sylvester, Caroline 
and Sophia. 

3. Jahleel, b. Dec. 11, 1704; d. Apr. 27, 1705. 

4. Jemima, b. June 30, 1706; m. Mr. Nicholson of N. J. 

5. Hon. Joseph of Stockbridge, Mass., b. Feb. 10, 1707; m. Mrs. 

Elizabeth Barnard and had Jemima, Isabella, Mabel, Hon. 
Jahleel (m. Lucy Edwards, daughter of Jonathan) and Stephen. 

6. Hon. Timothy, of the Indian Mission in Stockbridge, b. Feb. 27, 

1709; d. May II, 1775; m. Abigail Day and had Jeremiah, 
Woodbridge, Abigail and Sylvia. 

7. Benjamin, b. Feb. 4, 1711; died in infancy. 

8. Rev. Benjamin, b. June 12, 1712. No descendants. 

John Eliot Woodbridge is a descendant of the line through Jemima 
Eliot. He was well known before his death through his innovation in 
the treatment of typhoid fever. 

Mary E. (Morgan) Jones of Hudson, N. Y., is a descendant of 
this line through Timothy and Abigail Day. Their daughter Sylvia m. 
Phineas Morgan; their son, Miles Morgan, m. Lucy Lester; their son, 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 3 I 

Edwin Morgan, m. Mary E. Dutton; their daughter, Mary E. Dutton 
Morgan, b. Feb. 22, 1846, m. Alfred Akin Jones. Children : 

Myra Eloise Jones, b. Dec. 2, 1868 ; d. Oct. 1, 1896. 

Mary Elizabeth Jones, b. Sept. 14, 1870. 

Morgan Akin Jones, b. June 27, 1879; A.B. Williams 
College. 

Beatrice Larned Whitney of Detroit is a descendant through Hon. Joseph 
Woodbridge, who m. Mrs. Elizabeth Barnard; their son, Hon. Jahleel 
Woodbridge, m. Lucy Edwards ; their daughter, Sarah Edwards Wood- 
bridge, m. Moses Lester; their son, Chas. Edwards Lester, m. Ellen 
Janette Brown; their daughter, Ellen Salsbury Lester, m. Sylvester 
Larned of Detroit, whose daughter is Beatrice Larned, who married 
Bertram Cecil Whitney. 

13. iv. Barsheba 3 , b. 1683. 

She married Augustus Lucas of Fairfield, a French refugee. 

The following deposition was produced in the case of 
"Augustus Lucas of Newport, merchant, vs. Jahleel Brenton of 
Newport, deceased," in an action of trespass and ejectment, 
Supreme Court, Newport Co., 1735 : "Elizabeth and Mehitable 
Fowler declare what we know relating to the parentage of Mrs. 
Barsheba Lucas, dec. late wife of Mr. Augustus Lucas of New- 
port, merchant. We were neighbors to and well acquainted 
with Rev. Mr. Joseph Elliot, formerly pastor of the Church of 
Christ in the town of Guilford, colony of Conn, and his first wife 
who was called Sarah and was reputed to be the daughter of 
one Mr. Brenton of Taunton, near Rhode Island, and sister of 
Jahleel Brenton, Esq., late of said Rhode Island, deceased. We 
did not witness the marriage of said Mr. Elliot with said Sarah, 
but knew they lived together in said Guilford as husband and 
wife, for many years, till said Elliot had four daughters, born of 
said Sarah, the youngest of whom was the above-named 
Barsheba, who was born 14 days before the death of her said 
mother. She was brought up by her father, the said Elliott and 
was somewhat lame. We were not witnesses to the marriage 
of said Lucas and said Barsheba, but were conversant with said 
Barsheba in Guilford, where she visited 24 or 25 years ago, with 
her two children, viz, a son called Augustus Lucas, and a 
daughter called Barsheba Lucas. She professed herself the 
wife of said Augustus Lucas, of Newport, and mother of the 
children. Further we heard our honored mother Mary Fowler, 
deceased, say, she was at the wedding of the above said Mr. 



32 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Joseph Elliot, with the above Sarah Brenton, at her father's 
house in Taunton. The above named Elizabeth and Mehitable 
were both aged persons, but of sound mind and memory. 
Sworn to before me, Dec. n, 1735. 

Samuel Hill J. P." 
(The R. I. Historical Magazine, vol. 5, p. 61-2.) 

Inscriptions from monumental slabs, horizontally placed, in 
the old burial ground at Newport, R. I. They were copied with 
difficulty in 1889, being time-worn: 

Here lieth interred ye body of 
Augustus Lucas, Merch't who 
departed this Life October ye 8 th 1737 in ye 70 th yeare of his age. 

Here lyeth interred 
the body of Barsheba 
the wife of Augustus 
Lucas who died June 
ye 24 th 1714 
Aetatis suae 31 years. 

Remains of the border lines, originally placed near the edges 
of the slabs, are here and there to be seen. 



1. Augustus. 

2. Barsheba. 

Joseph Eliot married his second wife, Mary Wyllys, about 
1684-5. She was the daughter of Samuel Wyllys and Ruth 
Haynes. Samuel Wyllys was born about 1632 in England, and 
coming to this country in 1638, graduated at Harvard in 1653. 
He was an influential man, occupying many public offices, and 
was one of the signers of the Royal Charter granted by Charles 
II to Connecticut in 1662. He died in 1709. Samuel Wyllys 
was the son of Governor George Wyllys, who was the son of 
Richard (or Timothy) Wyllys, gentleman, from Fenny Comp- 
ton, Warwick, England. George was the third governor of the 
Connecticut Colony, being elected in 1641-2. 

Ruth Haynes, the wife of Samuel Wyllys, was the daughter 
of Gov. John Haynes. John Haynes was a gentleman from 
Copford Hall (Essex?), and a graduate of Cambridge, England. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 33 

He was born about 1590 and came to New England in 1633 
with Rev. Thomas Hooker. He settled first in Massachusetts 
Bay Colony, of which he was governor in 1636. He then 
removed to Connecticut, settled at Hartford, and was the first 
governor of the Connecticut Colony in 1639 an d every alternate 
year till 1653, alternating with Edward Hopkins, except in 1642, 
when George Wyllys served. He died in 1654. He was twice 
married, and by his second wife, Mabel Harlakenden, had three 
children, Joseph, Ruth and Mabel. Through Mabel Harla- 
kenden, whose pedigree will be found in another part of this 
book, all the descendants of Mary Wyllys inherit "Royal 
Descent." 

CHILDREN OF JOSEPH AND MARY WYLLYS. 

-f- 14. v. Tared 3 , b. Nov. 7, 1685 ; minister of Killingworth ; d. 
April 22, 1763. 

15. vi. Mary 3 , b. 1688; m. about 1734 Hawkins Hart of Wal- 

lingford. He had a large family of children by a 
former wife, who died in 1733. He died in 1735, and 
had by Mary issue : 

1. Samuel, b. July 18, 1735, in Wallingford; m. Abridget Fowler in 
Durham, Oct. 9, 1759. She died Nov. 26, 1827; he died Jan. 
12, 1805. They had five children, Daniel, Samuel, John, Ruth 
and Lois. Of these Samuel married Patience Hubbard; they 
had seven children, of whom the eldest, Deacon William 
Augustus, was born Apr. 26, 1806. He married, June 23, 1828, 
Sally Maria Jones of North Madison. Nine children were born 
to them and they both lived to celebrate their golden wedding. 
Their eldest son, Franklin Henry Hart, attended the Eliot 
gathering at Natick in 1901. He was born Apr. 29, 1834. 

16. vii. Rebecca 3 , b. 1690; m. first, Oct. 26, 1710, John Trow- 

bridge; second, Nov. 11, 1740, Ebenezer Fiske ; 
third, William Dudley. She died without issue. 

Monumental inscription : 

In memory of 
Mrs. Rebekah 
Relict of the late 
Capt. William Dudley 
who died Feb?. 9 th 1782 
Aged 92 years. 



34 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

This truth how certain 
when this life is ore 
Saints die to live 
and live to die no more 

We add a quaint indenture copied from the Shore Line Times, 
Feb. 21, 1901 : 

"This indenture made this 18 day of September A. D. 1749 Between 
Capt. William Dudley of Guilford in ye county of New Haven & Colony 
of Connecticut in New England on the one part & Rebecca Fisk late of 
New Milford now resident in Killingworth in ye county of new London 
widow on ye other part Witnesseth that whereas there is a marriage by 
ye Grace of God shortly to be consummated and Solemnized Between 
the sd. William Dudley & ye sd Rebecca Fisk, ye sd William Dudley on 
his part doth covenant to and with ye sd Rebecca Fisk, her heirs Execu- 
tors &c. that if he ye sd William Dudley die after Coverture with ye sd 
Rebecca. Before the sd Rebecca, then the sd. Rebecca shall have the use 
of the Ground Front Room in ye south end of his Mansion House. The 
use of ye oven and such Part of ye Cellar as she shall have Occasion for, 
also ye use of ye Well & convenient place for laying wood, and liberty of 
passing and repassing for ye full enjoyment of ye premises. 

I also give to ye sd Rebecca One good Milch Cow, & I also 
oblige my heirs Executors or Administrators to provide for ye same 
Pasture in summer & Hay in Winter & likewise ye use of a Horse to 
ride to Meeting and on other Occasions & ye same to be provided for 
Winter & Summer out of my estate. 

Also a sufficient quantity of fire-wood suitable for a fire yearly 
& to be Provided by my Heirs Executors &c Sufficient for one fire. 
I also oblige my Heirs Executors &c to Provide for ye sd Rebecca 
Sufficient yearly Provision both of Beef and Pork also six bushels of 
wheat yearly and two of Indian Corn. 

All ye above Articles to be provided by my Heirs Executors or 
Administrators for ye use of ye sd Rebecca During the whole term or so 
long as she shall remain the widow of ye sd William & do Furthermore 
covenant to and with the said Rebecca her Heirs &c to Return all ye 
Goods Wares Household Stuff Apparrel & Chattels of ye sd Rebecca 
which I ye sd William shall be seized or possessed of by Vertue of ye sd 
marriage or coverture and ye sd Rebecca on Her Part for & in con- 
sideration of any fulfillment of ye above written Covenant doth Hereby 
Acquitt ye sd William His Heirs Executors and Administrators All her 
right of Dower or Thirds by vertue of sd marriage she might be entitled 
to, but thereto and therefrom by vertue of these Presents do fully freely 
& Absolutely Acquitt & Discharge ye sd William His Heirs Executors &c. 

In Witness whereof ye Parties have hereunto Interchangably Sett their 
Hands & seals the day and date above written. 

Rebecca Fisk 
Signed Sealed & Delivered 
in Presence of 
Jared Eliot 
Abraham Pierson 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 35 

She survived her husband 21 years. His gravestone in North 
Guilford reads : 

In memory of Deacn. William Dudley 
who died Feb. 28 th , 1781, in his 78 th year. 

-j- 17. viii. Abial 3 , b. 1692. (?) 

As to date of birth of Abial Eliot. In 1691 it was voted in 
Guilford that there should be the fourth division of land. 
Joseph Eliot, his wife, four daughters of the first wife, two 
daughters of his second wife, and his son Jared were entitled to 
shares. As Abial is not mentioned, it is fair to suppose that he 
was not then born. According to Guilford records he died Oct. 
28, 1776, aged 84 years. This would make the year of his birth 
1692, and he would thus be the youngest child of Joseph and 
Mary Wyllys Eliot. 



5. SAMUEL 2 (John 1 ), A.B. Harvard Coll. 1660. He was 
chosen Aug. 24, 1663, a tutor and fellow of that institution. In 
a class of eight, not alphabetically arranged, his name is the 
third. 

His college expenses were, in part at least, paid by all kinds 
of farm produce, such as "barley malte," "wheate," "Calves," 
"goates," "weathers," "Skines," "Suett," "chickens," "a side 
of beaffe," "Indian corne," &c. &c. 

The subject of his Commencement part on taking his second 
degree in 1663 was : "On Anima rationalis sit Natura immor- 
talis," to which is added, "Affirmat Respondens Samuel 
Eliotus." 

There is reason for thinking he taught school in Roxbury 
soon after he graduated. 

Cotton Mather characterizes him thus : "A most lovely young 
Man, eminent for Learning and Goodness, a Fellow of the 
Colledge and Candidate of the Ministry." 

Gookin says : "He gave abundant demonstration of his piety, 
ability, gravity, and excellent temper. He left this world, and 
ascended to glory, after he had taken his second degree in the 
college. He hath undoubtedly arrived to his highest degree in 
the Empyreal Heaven. He was a person of whom the world 
was not worthy." — Sibley's Harvard Graduates ii, pp. 60, 61. 



36 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

7. BENJAMIN- (John 1 ), A.B. Harv. Coll. 1665. In the class 
there were eight graduates, the name of Benjamin Eliot being 
the first, and that of Calel Cheehahkaumuk, an Indian, being the 
last. 

The Commencement part on taking his second degree in 1668 
has for its subject, "Utrum dexter causa aliqua externa 
volitionis divinae." Negat Respondens, Benjamin Eliotus. 

At a town meeting in Mendon, Mass., Apr. 24, 1668,' it was 
"Ordered to send A Letter to give Mr. Benjamin Aliot a call, 
with his ffather's leave, and a Letter sent to that effect," but 
the application does not appear to have been successful. He 
received invitations from several places to become their pastor, 
but it had been a cherished object with his father that he should 
succeed him in his charge. 

Mather says, "the Apostle Eliot's Benjamin was made the 
Son of His Right Hand, for the Invitation of the People at 
Roxbury, placed him in the same Pulpit with his Father, where 
he was Assistant for many years ; there they had a Proof of 
him, that as a Son with his Father, he served with him in the 
Gospel." 

Samuel Sewall writes: "May 11 th 1685 I accompanied Mr. 
Moodey (H. C. 1653) to Mr. Eliots to persuade Mr. Benjamin 
to go to the Ordination of Mr. Cotton Mather, in which I hope 
we have prevailed ; the mentioning of it drew Tears from the 
good Father, so as to hinder his speech." May 13 th 1685, "Mr. 
Benjamin Eliot was there, who had not been at Town these 
many years." Aug. 24. 1687. "I visit Mr. Benjamin Eliot who 
is much touched as to his Understanding and almost all y e 
while I was there kept heaving up his shoulders : would many 
times laugh and would sing with me ... he read three or 
more staves of the Seventy-first Psalm 9 verses, his Father and 
Jno. Eliot singing with us; Mr. Benjamin would in some notes 
be very extravagant, would have sung again before I came 
away but's Father prevailed with him to y e contrary, alledging 
y e children would say he was distracted. Came with me to the 
Gate when took horse." 

Mather adds: "But his Fate was like that which the great 
Gregory Nanzianzen describes in his Discourse upon the Death 
of his honourable Brother, his aged Father being now alive and 
present; "My Father having laid up in a better World, a rich 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 37 

Inheritance for his Children, sent a Son of his before to take 
Possession of it." He d. Oct. 15, 1687. — From Sibley's Harv. 
Grad., vol. ii, pp. 164-5. 

He was probably not ordained as a minister, as his name is 
not italicized in the College catalogue. 

In the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society is a 
volume in manuscript containing notes of sermons by Benjamin 
Eliot, his father and others. 

Dr. Ellsworth Eliot of New York has an imperfect copy of 
sermons by Henrie Smith dated 1592, which has the autograph 
of Benjamin Eliot. 



JOHN 3 (John 2 , John 1 ), Guilford and Windsor, Conn. ; lawyer 
and statesman ; A.B. H. C. 1685. He was a deputy from 
Guilford to the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut 
in 1696-7. In 1 701 and for many subsequent years he was a 
deputy from Windsor, the last time in 1718. He was Speaker 
not less than eight times, for which he was allowed special 
compensation. During many sessions he was upon important 
committees. For many years he was appointed Justice of the 
Peace and Quorum for Hartford Co. In 1708 he was granted 
a monopoly to manufacture tar and pitch. He also accepted an 
offer from the town of Windsor to work iron ore. 

The County Court Records in New Haven 1666- 1698 show 
that he was appointed Commissioner of the heirs of Major 
Thompson, Sept. 9, 1667. During his residence in Guilford he 
was employed as a school teacher. He had the honor. of a gift 
of land and was sent to the General Assembly. 

When the institution which finally became Yale University 
was in its first beginning, his advice was sought and given in 
regard to legal procedures connected therewith. 

In 1 7 14, at a proprietors' meeting in Northampton, Mass., it 
was voted to refer a matter respecting a land division to a com- 
mittee, of which John Eliot was one. According to the 
"Economic and Social History of New England 1620-1789" by 
William B. Weeden, his library was of an unusually high char- 
acter. "The most comprehensive list I have seen covers the 
library of John Eliott Esq. at Hartford in 1719. It contains 
243 titles. (See Part III.) The brilliant and permanent litera- 



38 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

ture of Queen Anne had made hardly any impression in our 
colonies, but this collection had two volumes of 'The Tattler.' 
It is a most heterogeneous lot, old histories, sermons, a few 
medical books, and more upon law, miscellaneous literature, 
almost all now unknown to the ordinary reader." 

His maternal grandfather, Major General Daniel Gookin, 
applied to Harvard College for a scholarship for him Sept. 12, 
1682, saying, "His father left him but small matters (except 
his bookes) of outward things in order to bring him up to 
learning, which was his last desire at his death." After gradu- 
ation he studied divinity, and "entered upon the work of the 
ministry," but must have soon discontinued it. When he took 
his second degree in 1688, his exercise is worded, "An Diversifi- 
catio corporum Oriatur a motu." There is added, "Afnrmat 
Respondens Johannes Eliotes." 

According to the inscription on a horizontal slab over his 
grave in Windsor, he died, "March y e 25. Anno Christi 1719. 
Aetatus suae LII." 

Quotation from will of Joseph Eliot: "Whereas My father, 
upon the decease of my last brother, Benjamin, gave me deeds 
of my brother's land and movable estate in immediate possession, 
yet with this provision that it should be only for covart, he being 
left alone in his old age, and not to hinder his making his will, 
according to his meaning and true intent, which he afterwards 
did. and therein gave a third part of his lands and goods to his 
grandson, my nephew John Eliot, who hath accordingly received 
his full part in the movables, and I have given him an imperfect 
deed of the lands ; I do now confirm and ratify my father's 
will to him, so far as I am enabled by the deeds afore mentioned ; 
but for several reasons see not light or ground any further as to 
the enlarging his portion, which reasons may be better concealed 
than published." 

It will be seen from the foregoing that John Eliot, "Apostle," 
made a will ; but neither the original, nor a copy of it. can be 
discovered. The reasons for not enlarging the portion of John 3 
(No. 9) have been successfully concealed. Sibley (Harvard 
Graduates, vol. 3, p. 339) says his uncle Joseph 2 (No. 4) wished 
him to pursue the clerical profession. Much to the scandal and 
regret of his uncle, as appears from his will, he became a 
"lawyer and politician." In his chosen profession his career 
was eminently useful and creditable, lie married, first, Oct. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 39 

31, 1699, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Stoughton, and widow of 
James Mackman. She was baptized Nov. 18, 1660, d. Nov. 
24, 1702. He married, second, Mary, dau. of John Wolcott of 
Windsor. She died about 1746. 

CHILDREN, BY HIS SECOND WIFE. 

18. i. Mary 4 , b. Mar. 28, 1708. 

She married Rev. Isaac Burr, born in Hartford in 1697, 
graduated at Yale Coll. in 1717, settled at Worcester, Mass., 
Oct. 13, 1725, and was dismissed in 1745. He died in Windsor 
in 1 75 1. For issue, see O. E. G. 

19. ii. Ann 4 , b. Feb. 12, 1710 

She married, first, George Holloway of Cornwall, who died 
July 13, 1756; second, Joseph Banks of Reading. 

20. iii. Elizabeth 4 , b. May 14, 1712. 

She married Thomas Chandler of Woodstock. 

21. iv. Sarah 4 . 

Married Dec. 26, 1738, Rev. Joshua Eaton, b. in Waltham, 
Mass., 1714, H. C. 1735. He was at first a lawyer, afterwards 
a minister in Spencer, Mass. ; d. April 2, 1772, aged 58. She d. 
Oct. 28, 1770. Issue: 

1. John, b. May 19, 1741 ; d. July 11, 1754. 

2. Sarah, b. May 12, 1744; d. Oct. 1744. 

3. Sarah, b. Oct. 11, 1745. 

4. Mary, b. Oct. 1, 1747; d. July 2, 1754. 

5. Joshua, b. Jan. 2, 1749. 

6. Samuel, b. Mar. 14, 1752; d. Jan. 21, 1754. 

7. John Eliot, b. Feb. 9, 1756; d. Dudley, Mass., Oct. 12, 1812. 

This John Eliot Eaton, H. C. 1779, was a physician. His 
daughter, Lydia Wolcott Eaton, was the mother of Henry C. 
Bowen, at one time a merchant in New York City, and sub- 
sequently founder and owner of the Independent, a religious 
newspaper of wide circulation. Her grandsons were, Clarence 
Winthrop Bowen, A.B. Y. C. 1873, and John Eliot Bowen, A.B. 
Y. C. 1881. Another daughter of Dr. John Eliot Eaton was 
Harriet, wife of Samuel P. Knight. Their daughter Mary 
Eaton was married to Hezekiah Conant of Pawtucket, R. I., 
where she is at present living (1904). 

Sarah Eaton (b. 1745), m. Dr. Wm. Frink. 

William Frink m. Robah Eaton. 

Adeline Frink m. Cyrus Birge. 

Anna Birge m. Francis H. Smith. 

Frank Birge Smith of Washington, D. C, m. Grace Dyer. 
3 



40 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

+ 22. v. John 4 , b. Jan. 21,1717; d. Nov. 2.J, 1790. 
23. vi. Hannah 4 , b. Nov. 9, 1719. 



14. JARED 3 (Joseph 2 , John 1 ), A.B. Yale College 1706, A.M. 
Harvard Socius, S.R. London Soc. A member of the Corpora- 
tion of Yale College from 1730 to 1762. 

Jared Eliot, the grandson of John, judged in relation to the 
men of his time holds next to its illustrious founder the 
most distinguished position in the annals of the family. His 
immediate ancestry naturally bred the excellence which he so 
strikingly exemplified. Joseph Eliot, his father, the second son 
of John, had been graduated from Harvard in 1658 and settled 
over the church at Guilford, Conn. He was a man of great 
piety and of marked intellectual strength, which made him a 
power in the councils of the colony. For his second wife 
Joseph Eliot married Mary Wyllys, the daughter of Governor 
Wyllys and the granddaughter of Governor Haynes ; and it was 
from this union that Jared, the eldest child, was born in Guilford, 
Nov. 7, 1685. 

His father's will had directed that one son should be trained 
up to learning and fitted for the ministry. It was in accordance 
with this request that Jared was enrolled among the earliest 
pupils of the Collegiate School of Connecticut, later to be known 
as Yale College, and from this institution he received his 
bachelor's degree in 1706. Field in his Statistical Account of 
Middlesex County states that his early progress was slow, but 
adds : "As he applied himself more and more to study, his mind 
improved in quickness of apprehension as well as in strength, 
and he at length acquired a greatness and excellence rarely sur- 
passed, at least in our country." Before his graduation he had 
won the affection and esteem of Rector Abraham Pierson, for 
when within the year the venerable man lay upon his death bed, 
he earnestly advised his parishioners of the church in Killing- 
worth (now Clinton) to call as his successor his favorite pupil, 
Eliot. They heeded his counsel, and the church records show 
that Eliot "entered and engaged in the ministerial! office in the 
church of Killingworth June the 1st, 1707," though he was not 
formally ordained until Oct. 26, 1709. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 41 

To accept the call of the Killingworth church he withdrew 
from the position of schoolmaster in his native town ; but he 
maintained throughout his life a strong interest in educational 
matters. In 1730 he was elected a Trustee of Yale College, the 
first graduate of the institution to be so honored, and he filled 
the position till his death with interest and energy, and in his 
will left the first bequest for the development of the library 
of that institution. Nor was his interest in education only 
objective. He was an indefatigable student and acquired a 
broad culture in science and letters, attainments which Harvard 
recognized with an honorary A.M., the second on her list, and 
which brought him into interesting correspondence and associ- 
ation with President Stiles, Bishop Berkeley, and Benjamin 
Franklin. 

Eliot's ministry in Killingworth covered a period of fifty-six 
years. These years were full of service. Ruggles, in the dis- 
course preached at his funeral, remarks : "For more than forty 
years of the latter part of his life he never missed preaching 
some part of every Sabbath either at home or abroad." The 
same authority thus defines his theological position : "As he 
was sound in the faith, according to the true character of ortho- 
doxy, so he was of a truly catholic and Christian spirit in the 
exercise of it. Difference in opinion as to religious principles 
was no obstruction to a hearty practice of the great law of love, 
benevolence, and true goodness to man, to every man ; nor of 
Christian charity to the whole household of faith. Them he 
received whom he hoped the Lord had received ; abhorring 
narrowness, and the mean contractedness of a party spirit, but 
heartily loved and freely practiced, in word and behaviour, the 
great law of true liberty." This broad catholicity and spirit 
of liberty at one time nearly led him into Episcopacy. He had 
married in 1710 Hannah, daughter of Samuel Smithson of 
Guilford, recently from England and firm in the faith of the 
Established Church. Whether this association influenced his 
thought, or whether it was a development of his own nature, we 
find him in 1722 with Rector Cutler, Tutor Browne and four 
others stating to the Trustees of the College that, "Some of 
them doubted the validity, and the rest were more fully per- 
suaded of the invalidity, of the Presbyterian ordination." The 
arguments that followed the declaration satisfied his reason and 



42 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

established his orthodoxy ; and in the theological controversies 
of later years he took his stand as an Old Light. As a preacher 
he sought to impart moral truths rather than theological dogmas, 
and his style is one of laconic simplicity without rhetorical 
adornment except for the illustrative allusions drawn from his 
wealth of learning and experience. 

But he was not only a divine, he was a physician as well. Dr. 
William H. Welch, Professor of Pathology in the Johns Hopkins 
University, stated in his address on Yale and Medicine at the 
Bicentennial of Yale in 1901 : "Of all those who combined the 
offices of clergyman and physician, not one, from the foundation 
of the American colonies, attained so high distinction as a 
physician as Jared Eliot." Thacher, in his American Medical 
Biography, remarks : "Eliot was unquestionably the first 
physician of his day in Connecticut," and in chronic complaints 
"he appears to have been more extensively consulted than any 
other physician in New England, frequently visiting every 
county of Connecticut, and being often called in Boston and 
Newport." He was particularly quick in diagnosis and ingeni- 
ously effective in the application of remedies. In addition he 
trained so many students in medicine who subsequently attained 
distinction that he is commonly called "The father of regular 
medical practice in Connecticut." 

Distinguished as a divine, eminent as a physician, Eliot was 
scarcely less famous in scientific investigation. He discovered 
the existence of iron in the dark red sea-sand, and as a result of 
successful experiments made America's first contribution to the 
science of metallurgy in a tract entitled, "The Art of Making 
very good if not the best Iron from black sea Sand." These 
investigations won for him by unanimous vote the gold medal 
of the London Society of Arts, in 1762. This was not, how- 
ever, his first European recognition, for some half dozen years 
before he had attained the then unique distinction of unanimous 
election as a member of the Royal Society. Another department 
of investigation which he assiduously pursued was that of 
scientific agriculture. In this he was quite a century ahead of 
his time, as is evidenced in the half-dozen tracts which he pub- 
lished and subsequently collected in a volume with the title, 
"Field Husbandry in New England." 

Unlike many a scientific investigator, Eliot was distinctly 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 43 

practical. He was preeminently a man of affairs. He utilized 
his knowledge. His interest in metallurgy led to large and 
profitable investments in the ore-fields of northwestern Con- 
necticut. His agricultural experiments he applied to extensive 
farming tracts which he had acquired in Killingworth and in 
other parts of the colony, with the result, according to Thacher, 
that "these (his farms) were generally better cultivated, and 
furnished more profits than those of his neighbors." The 
attainment of such gratifying results was due primarily to his 
indomitable energy. Ruggles tells us : "Idleness was his abhor- 
rence ; but every portion of time was filled with action by him. 
Perhaps no man, in his day, has slept so little, and done so much, 
in so great variety." Thacher adds : "He was very industrious 
and methodical, and was peculiarly careful that whatever he 
undertook should be well executed." 

To strenuous activity and successful accomplishment he 
added a rare charm of person and of manner. Well pro- 
portioned and of commanding presence, with a countenance 
from which a grave dignity did not altogether banish a gentle 
kindliness, he merits Ruggles' characterization : "He had a turn 
of mind peculiarly adapted for conversation, and happily accom- 
modated to the pleasures of a social life. . . . No less agreeably 
charming and engaging was his company, accommodated to 
every person under every circumstance. Nothing affected, 
nothing assuming ; it is all nature, and shined with wisdom, so 
that perhaps no person ever left his company dissatisfied, or 
without being pleased with it." It is no wonder that with a mind 
so well trained and actively exercised, with a person so attractive 
and a personality so charming he should have elicited from his 
friend Benjamin Franklin this affectionate reminiscence in one 
of his letters : "I remember with pleasure the cheerful hours I 
enjoyed last winter in your company, and I would with all my 
heart give any ten of the thick old folios that stand on the 
shelves before me, for a little book of the stories you then told 
with so much propriety and humor." 

His effectiveness in accomplishment, as well as his charm of 
manner, remained with him to the end of his long life. He died 
in Killingworth (now Clinton) April 22, 1763, in the seventy- 
eighth year of his age. He was buried in the village church- 
yard. His pastorate was the longest in the history of the 



44 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

church ; and, to quote from Dexter's Yale Biographies and 
Annals: "He had outlived every pastor in the Colony who had 
been earlier ordained and all who had been graduated at the 
college before him." Here was a life richly lived. Ceaseless 
activity and marvelous versatility accomplished fame for him- 
self, but what was to him of vastly greater importance, wrought 
service for his fellows. [This sketch was prepared by his 
descendant, George E. Eliot, Jr.] 

AUTHORITIES. 

Dexter: Yale Biographies and Annals 1701-1745. Vols. I. II. 

W. Allen: American Biographical Dictionary. 3d Ed. 333. 

Clinton Church 200th Anniversary, 22. 

Genealogy of the Eliot Family. 1854. 65, 155. 

Field: Statistical Account of Middlesex County, no. 

Franklin: Works VI, VII. passim. 

T. Ruggles : Funeral Sermon of the Great and Venerable Dr. Jared 

Eliot. 
Sprague : Annals of American Pulpit. I, 270. 
President Stiles : Ms. Correspondence VI. 
Thacher : Medical Biographies, I, 263. 
Welch : Yale and Medicine. Yale Bicentennial Address. 



JARED ELIOT'S PUBLICATIONS. 

1. The Right Hand of Fellowship. Boston, 1730. 

2. The Two Witnesses : or Religion Supported by Reason and Divine 

Revelation. New London, 1736. 

3. Give Caesar his Due : or the Obligations that Subjects are under to 

their Civil Rulers as shewed in a Sermon Preached before the 

General Assembly of the Colony, May n, 1738. New London, 

1738. 
The Blessings Bestowed on them that Fear God. (Sermon on the 

death of Mrs. Elizabeth Smithson.) New London, 1739. 
God's Marvellous Kindness. (Thanksgiving Sermon on the Capture 

of Louisbourg.) New London, 1745. 
Repeated Bereavements Considered and Improved, (on the death of 

Augustus Eliot) New London, 1748. 
An Essay upon Field Husbandry in New England in six successive 

numbers. New London and New Haven, 1748-1759. 
Discourse on the Death of Rev. Win. Worthington, Nov. 16, 1756. 

New Haven, 1757. 
Essay on the Invention, or Art of making very good, if not the best 

Iron, from black Sea-Sand. New York, 1762. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 45 

He married, Oct. 26, 1710, Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel 
Smithson of Guilford. She was born about 1693 ; d. Feb. 18, 
1 76 1, aged 68. 

CHILDREN. 

24. i. Elizabeth 4 , b. Oct. 20, 171 1 ; d. Apr. 11, 1713. 

25. ii. Hannah 4 , b. Oct. 15, 1713; married June 6, 1739, 

Benjamin Gale, M.D., of Killingworth. Dr. Gale was 

born Dec. 14, 171 5 ; d. May 6, 1790. Mrs. Hannah 

d. Jan. 27, 1 78 1. 

Benjamin Gale, son of John Gale, Jr., of Goshen, N. Y., and 

great-grandson of Abel Gale of Jamaica, L. I., graduated from 

Yale Coll. in 1733, studied medicine with the Rev. Jared Eliot, 

and practiced his profession for fifty years until his death. He 

wrote, and wrote well, on a great variety of topics, the Saybrook 

platform, inoculation, finance, the interpretation of prophecy, 

the reduction of town representation, and the millenium, and he 

received a medal from the Society of Arts for the invention of 

an improved drill plough. Like his father-in-law, Dr. Jared, 

he disliked confessions of faith, and advocated the largest 

religious liberty. 

The children of Hannah and Dr. Benjamin Gale were: 
Elizabeth, Catharine, Mary, Juliana, Hannah, Mehitabel, Samuel 
and Benjamin. Elizabeth Gale was b. Dec. 3, 1740, and d. 
Nov. 18, 1818; she married her cousin, Samuel Gale, and had 
seven children. Samuel Gale was b. Mar. 8, 1743. and d. in 
1799. 

PEDIGREE OF EDWARD COURTLAND GALE. 

Benjamin Gale = Hannah Eliot 

Samuel = Elizabeth Gale 

Samuel = Mary Thompson 

Ezra Thompson = Caroline de Forest 

CHILDREN. 

Alfred de Forest Gale, Eliot Thompson Gale, Benjamin Herbert 

Gale, Mary de Forest Gale, Margaret Eliza Gale, Edward 

Courtland Gale, Caroline de Forest Gale. 

Edward Courtland Gale (of Troy, N. Y.) m. Mary Warren Thompson; 

they have children, Alfred Warren, Harold de Forest, and Marie 

Carolyn. 

For further facts regarding children of Hannah and Benjamin Gale, 
see Gale Genealogy. 



46 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

26. iii. Samuel 4 , b. Mar. 9, 1716; graduated at Yale Coll. in 
1735 ; was a physician ; and d. Jan. 1, 1741. 
+ 27. iv. Aaron 4 , b. Mar. 15, 1718; d. Dec. 30, 1785. 

28. v. Augustus 4 , b. June 18, 1720; graduated at Yale Coll. 
in 1740; was a physician; and died at Saybrook 
Nov. 26, 1747. 
4- 29. vi. Joseph 4 , b. Jan. 8, 1723 ; d. Aug. 1, 1762. 
+ 30. vii. Nathan 4 , b. Apr. 13, 1725 ; d. Mar. 1798. 
-f- 31. viii. Jared 4 , b. Mar. 17, 1728; d. Mar. 181 1. 

32. ix. Luke 4 , b. Aug. 1, 1730; d. Sept. 8, 1730. 
-f- 33. x. John 4 , b. Dec. 2, 1732 ; d. Mar. 9, 1797. 
-f- 34. xi. George 4 , b. Mar. 9, 1736; d. May 1, 1810. 



17. ABIAL 3 {Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer in Guilford. He mar- 
ried in 1726 Mary, dau. of John Leete of Guilford, and great- 
granddaughter of Wm. Leete, Governor of Connecticut. She 
was b. Feb. 28, 1701 ; d. Jan. 12, 1780. 

A short account of the Leete ancestry follows : 
John Leete of Dodington, Huntingdonshire, England, married 
Anna Shute, daughter of Robert Shute, one of the justices of 
the King's Bench. 

Their son, William Leete, born in Dodington in 1612-13, was 
bred to the law and served for a considerable time as clerk in 
the Bishop's Court at Cambridge. He came to America with the 
Rev. Mr. Whitfield's company, and was one of the signers of 
the Plantation Covenant on shipboard June 1, 1639, arriving in 
New Haven about July 13. The company settled at Guilford, 
where Mr. Leete was clerk of the plantation from 1639 to 1662. 
He was one of the four men to whom was entrusted the whole 
civil power of theplantation until a church was formed July 
19, 1643 (O.S.). At this time he was chosen one of the seven 
pillars. He was deputy from Guilford to the General Court till 
1650; magistrate from 1651 to 1658; chosen Deputy Governor 
of New Haven Colony in 1658, and continued in that office until 
he was chosen Governor in 1661, which office he held until the 
union with the Connecticut Colony in 1664-5. After the union 
he was assistant until 1669, when he was elected Deputy 
Governor of the Connecticut Colony, holding the office until 



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1676, when he was chosen Governor, keeping the office until 
his death, at Hartford, April 16, 1683. He married in England 
about 1638, Anna Payne, daughter of Rev. John Payne of 
Southhoe. She died Sept. 1, 1668, and was the mother of all 
his children. His son John 2 Leete (1639-1692) married Mary 
Chittenden (1647-1712), dau. of William Chittenden and his 
wife Joanna (supposed to have been daughter of Dr. Edmund 
Sheaffle of Cranbrook, England, but there is a question on that 
point, because of some records lately found). John 2 Leete is 
said to have been the first white child born in Guilford. 

Their son John 3 Leete, b. Jan. 4, 1674, d. 1730, married Sarah 
Allen, d. Mar. 8, 17 12, aged 36. Their daughter Mary, b. Feb. 
28, 1 701, married Abial Eliot. 

CHILDREN. 

Nathaniel 4 , b. Aug. 15, 1728; d. Apr. 24, 1804. 

Wyllys 4 , b. Feb. 9, 1731 ; d. Sept. 20, 1777. 

Rebecca*, b. Sept. 8, 1733; m. May 27, 1750, Nathaniel 

Graves of Guilford. She died July 27, 1820. He 

d. Nov. 29, 1799. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Nathaniel, b. Feb. 12, 1757; d. July 22, 1832. 

2. Sarah, b. Apr. 8, 1762; d. Jan. 1839 (Steiner) ; m. Apr. 8, 1782, 
Ebenezer Munger, b. June 3, 1755 ; d. Apr. 10, 1834. Children : 
Polly, b. 1783; William, b. 1785: Frederic, b. 1787; Martin, b. 
1791 ; Dr. Ebenezer, b. July 22, 1794; d. Oct. 13, 1857. Dr. 
Ebenezer Munger graduated at Yale in 1814, m. Cynthia 
Sheldon, and was the father of Rev. Theodore T. Munger, the 
well known author and pastor for many years in New Haven. 

4- 38. iv. Timothy 4 , b. Oct. 23, 1736; d. Apr. 17, 1809. 
39. v. Levi 4 , b. Nov. 1, 1739; d. Mar. 21, 1765. 
. 40. vi. Margery 4 , b. Mar. 19, 1742; married Oct. 26, 1771, 
Theophilus Merriman of Wallingford. 

CHILDREN. 

I. Ruth, b. July 18, 1773; m. Samuel Frost, Nov. 24, 1794. 
Children : 
a. Maria, m. Bishop Cook. Children : 

Charles (m. Miss Martin of New Orleans, and has child, 
Martin) ; Jane (m. John O'Harra, and has child, 
Augusta). 



48 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

b. Amanda, m. William T. Lancraft. Children: 

Charles Eliot Lancraft. 

William M. Lancraft (m. Josephine Chidsey, and had 
children, Charlotte Josephine (m. Edward F. Thomp- 
son — issue, Marjorie E. and Doris E.). 

John Eliot Lancraft. 

Charlotte M. Lancraft (m. Smith G. Tuttle, and had 
children, Charles Smith and Gilbert Walker). 

George E. Lancraft (m. Ella Armstrong). 

Henry S. Lancraft (m. Cornelia Tuttle, and had children, 
Esther Amanda (m. Dr. E. Otis Hovey and had three 
children, all dead), and Ida Mabel). 

Harvey B. Lancraft. 

c. Charlotte Loraine, m. William B. Goodyear. Children : 

William B. (m. Nellie Murrey; children, Charlotte and 
Lizzie) ; Miles H. ; Eliza Amanda (m. Col. Marion 
Francis Crafts; children, Mary and Francis Goodyear). 

d. Julia, m. Lucius Bartholomew. Child : 

Bennett (m. Clara Burwell. Issue, Eliot, Harvey Clare). 

e. Noyes. 
2. Mary. 

3- Eliot. 
4. Sarah. 



22. JOHN 4 (John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), A.B. Harvard Coll. 1737. Mer- 
chant in New Haven, Conn., where he lived until 1760. From 
1760 to 1770 he was a prominent and influential resident of 
Spencer, Mass., where he owned a mansion house and about 
440 acres of land, paid the largest taxes, and was much in 
public life, filling the most important offices in town. Subse- 
quently he resided at Upper Middletown (now Cromwell, 
Conn.), where a record of his death is found, and his will, 
dated Sept. 21, 1790, is recorded in the Probate Records of 
Middletown. He married Mar. 7, 1739, Lydia, daughter of 
Jeremiah and Lydia (Rosewell) Atwater, b. Oct. 18, 1715, d. 
Jan. 28, 1776. She had been divorced from her first husband, 
Dr. Alexander Wolcott, at his request, by whom she had had 
three children. A memorial brown stone slab marks her grave 
in the old burial ground at Cromwell, Conn., with the inscrip- 
tion : "In memory of Mrs. Lydia Eliot, the wife of John Eliot 
Esq., who departed this life Jan. 28, A. D. 1776, in the 61 st year 
of her age." 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 49 

After the death of his wife Lydia, it is said that John 
married Hannah Phelps of Simsbury, Conn. This is not 
improbable, as "My wife Hannah" is mentioned in his will. 

CHILDREN, ALL BY HIS FIRST WIFE. 

41. i. Mary 5 , b. Jan. 19, 1742; married August 10, 1777, to 
John Smith. 
The tradition is that Mr. Eliot had four tall and stately 
daughters, and that Capt. John Smith selected one of them for 
his second wife. One of their daughters was the wife of Jesse 
Churchill, and the mother of T. G. and Wm. Elliott Churchill 
of New York City. 

-f- 42. ii. John 5 , b. Apr. 22, 1745 ; d. Mar. 1808. 

43. iii. Sarah 5 , b. Nov. 30, 1750; married Dec. 23, 1778, Eli^ 
Leavenworth, colonel in the Revolutionary army, b. 
Dec. 10, 1748. 

He was first appointed by the Legislature July 1, 1775, captain 
of the 10th company of the 2d regiment of New Haven. In 
1776 he was captain in Colonel Webb's regiment of Conti- 
nentals, marched from Boston to New York with Washington, 
and under him was engaged in fortifying Brooklyn. 

In October of the same year he was engaged at White Plains, 
on Dec. 25, 1776, at Trenton, and on Jan. 3, 1777, at Princeton. 
At the request of Washington, he remained with his regiment 
six weeks after its term of enlistment had expired. On May 27, 
1777, he was commissioned major in the 6th Continental Line 
Regiment (Colonel Charles Webb), in camp at Peekskill, and 
during the summer was with Parsons' Brigade in movements 
against Fort Montgomery. 

On July 15, 1779, he was with Colonel Meigs' regiment at the 
capture of Stony Point; 1777-8 in winter quarters at West 
Point, and engaged in construction of Meigs redoubt. Summer 
of 1778, encamped at White Plains under command of Wash- 
ington; 1778-9, wintered at Camp Redding; summer, engaged 
on Hudson; 1779-80, wintered at Morristown. 

On the discovery of the treachery of Arnold, Major Leaven- 
worth was ordered to West Point. Owing to the consolidation 
of his regiment with others, he retired from the army in the 
spring of 1781. 



50 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

He was brevetted Colonel on retiring and became a member 
of the Connecticut Society of the Order of Cincinnati. 



I. Sarah, b. May 10, 1780; d. May 17, 1840; m. John Jeffords. 
Their daughter Caroline Frances Jeffords, b. in Columbus, O., 
May 12, 1818, m. Mar. 21, 1838, Nathaniel Wilson Brooks. 
Children : John Wilson ; Caroline Frances (m. Edward Potter 
Cressy; children, Frances Brooks and Edward Wilson) ; Mary 
Hoar St. Clair (m. William Dudley Morton), and Margaret 
Perkins. 

-f- 44. iv. Richard Rosewell 5 , b. Oct. 8, 1752; d. Oct. 21, 1818. 
45. v. Hannah 5 , b. Aug. 25, 1755 ; d. May 21, 1837. 

She married Nov. 4, 1784, Abel Porter of Kensington, bapt. 
Aug. 25, 1757 ; d. at Paris, N. Y., Jan. 29, 1850. He was in the 
Revolutionary war. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Nancy. 

2. Huldah. 

3. Charlotte, b. Oct. 29, 1789; d. May 9, 1870; m. Sept. 17. 1808, 

Aaron Benedict of Waterbury, b. Aug. 9, 1785 ; d. Feb. 9, 
1873. Children : 

a. Charlotte Ann, b. 1810. 

b. Frances Jeanette, b. 1812 ; d. 

c. George William, b. 1814; m. Caroline Steele. 

d. Charles, b. Sept. 23, 1817; d. Oct. 30, 1881 ; m. Oct. 1, 1845, 

Cornelia Johnson of Waterbury, dau. of John D. Johnson. 
Children : Amelia Caroline, b. 1847 ; Charlotte Bucking- 
ham, b. 1850 (m. May 30, 1878, Gilman Crane Hill ; child, 
Katharine, b. Mar. 9, 1879, m. Apr. 14, 1904, Dr. Nelson 
Asa Pomeroy) ; Cornelia Johnson, b. 1852. 

e. Mary Lyman, b. 1819; m. John Mitchell. 

4. Frances, b. Oct. 29, 1789; d. May 13, 1867; m. Jan. 1808, William 

Leavenworth. He d. May 13, 1867. Child : 
a. Sarah Hannah, b. at Albany, N. Y., June 16, 1818; m. Oct. 
11, 1839, Benjamin Pierson Watrous. Children: Sarah 
Frances, b. Oct. 23, 1840; William Edward, b. Aug. 18, 
1844; John Pierson, b. Apr. 29, 1846; Charles Benedict, 
b. May 17, 1849; Mary Totton, b. Jan. 11, 1S53 (m. Apr. 
3, 1877, Rt. Rev. Anson R. Graves, Bishop of Laramie; 
children: Frederick Daniel, b. July 21, 1878; Margaret, b. 
May 23, 1880 ; Eliot Varnum, b. Sept. 24, 1882 ; Gertrude, 
b. Sept. 10, 1886; David Watrous, b. Mar. 17, 1891 ; Paul, 
b. Mar. 23, 1893). 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 5 I 

Sarah Hannah Leavenworth, m. second, F. A. Vash. 

Child: Sarah Leavenworth, b. Sept. 24, 1857; d. Sept. 6, 
1900 ; m. June, 1887, Rev. John A. Todd. 

As Hannah's posterity was not mentioned and Lydia's name 
was not included in the O. E. G., the following document, fur- 
nished by Mrs. Gilman C. Hill of Waterbury, will be interesting, 
as proving the connection of these two lines with the family. 

Middletown Land Records, vol. 28, p. 99, records a deed 
dated Aug. 30, 1785, from John* Eliot to his son-in-law, Abel 
Porter. 

Middletown Probate Records, vol. 5, p. 466, gives will of 
John 4 Eliot of Middletown, dated Sept. 21, 1790, and probated 
Dec. 6 following. In it he states that he had made a jointure 
with his wife Hannah before marriage, and mentions his eldest 
son John 5 and five other children, Richard, Rosewell Eliot, Mary 
Smith, Sarah Leavenworth, Hannah Porter and Lydia Ann Lee. 

Extract from Connecticut Journal, New Haven : 

Wednesday Aug. 13, 1794 speaks of appointing commis- 
sioners to receive and examine the estate of Lydia Eliot, 
formerly wife to John 4 Eliot Esq. which was represented 
insolvent, and giving notice to all creditors to present their 
claims within six months or they would be debarred a recovery, 
(a regular probate notice). 

46. vi. William, b. July 29, 1757. 

Probably died before Sept. 21, 1790, as his name does not 
appear in his father's will of that date. It has been said that he 
was a physician. 

47. vii. Lydia Ann, b. June 22, 1760; d. Sept. 17, 1836; mar- 

ried at Westerly, R. I., Feb. 4, 1784, Dr. Daniel Lee. 
He is said to have been the first Washington County (R. I.) 
physician. Previous to his time the ministers were the physi- 
cians. He died of yellow fever, contracted while visiting a 
patient on a vessel from a southern port. His tombstone 
recounts that "He was a physician of eminence, a universal 
philanthropist, and a friend to the distressed. His death is 
greatly lamented by all who knew him." Buried at first in 
Westerly, R. I., his remains were removed in 1856 to Grove 
street cemetery, New Haven, Conn. The tombstone of his wife 



52 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Lydia is inscribed : "The grave of Lydia Ann Lee, Relict of 
Dr. Daniel Lee of Westerly, R. I., who died 17 Sept. 1836 Ae. 
76 years. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." " 



1. William Eliot, b. Nov. 5, 1784; m. first, Susan Smith, by whom 

he had nine children, the youngest being Susan Sophia, wife 
of Charles Dudley Warner of Hartford, Conn., the well known 
author. He married second, Mrs. Judge Tousley of Syracuse, 
N. Y. 

2. Nancy Atwater, b. Apr. 30, 1787, at Lyme, Conn. ; d. Apr. 12, 

1846, and is buried in New Haven, Conn. Monumental inscrip- 
tion ends : "Though dead, yet shall she live." She married 
John Bassett of Derby, Conn. Their son, William Eliot 
Bassett, graduated at Y. C. 1850. 

3. Sophia, b. Feb. 20, 1789, at Lyme, Conn. ; d. April 14, 1833. 

4. Harriet, b. Jan. io, 1791, at Westerly, R. I. 

5. Fanny, b. Oct. 20, 1792, at Westerly, R. I. 

6. Sophronia Spalding, b. Aug. 25, 1794, at Westerly, R. I. ; m. 

Harvey Gillett of Westfield, Mass. Their daughter Charlotte, 
b. 1826, d. Dec. 24, 1891, was married to Rev. John De Witt, 
D.D., of New Brunswick, N. J., in 1847. She was most 
enthusiastic and persevering in tracing her descent from John 
Eliot, "Apostle," which she accomplished in the discovery of 
Lydia Ann (dau. of John Eliot, 22), not in old Eliot 
Genealogy. 

7. Benjamin Franklin, b. May 9, 1796, at Westerly, R. I.; m. Jane 

Riker Lawrence, niece of Recorder Riker of New York City. 

8. Daniel Mather, b. Jan. 15, 1798, at Westerly, R. I. 

9. Allen Campbell, b. Oct. 26, 1799, at Westerly, R. I. ; m. Jane Ann 

Pray, niece of Peter Mesier of New York City. Their 
daughter, Eliza Palmer Lee, m. W. G. Ward of New York 
City; issue, Alleine Ward, New York City. 

10. Charlotte, b. Aug. 16, 1801, at Westerly, R. I.; d. Aug. 19, 1858. 

Gravestone in New Haven, Conn., says, "Ae. 56." 

11. Sally, b. Mar. 10, 1803, at Westerly, R. I.; child, Sarah Maria, 

She became Mrs. Prof. Barrows, mother of Mrs. Prof. Hitch- 
cock of Dartmouth College. 



27. AARON* (Jared\ Joseph 2 , John 1 ), Deacon, Colonel, and 
physician in Killingworth, member of the General Assembly 
nine sessions. He married, Feb. 14, 1745, Mary, daughter of 
Rev. William Worthington of Saybrook (Westbrook). Tem- 
perance, another daughter of Mr. Worthington, was the wife of 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 5 3 

Rev. Cotton Mather Smith of Sharon, and mother of John 
Cotton Smith, Governor of Connecticut, President of the 
American Bible Society, etc. Mrs. Mary d. June 28, 1785. 

CHILDREN. 

48. i. Hannah 5 , b. Aug. 31, 1746. 

She was highly educated, and m. Nov. 23, 1773, Gen. Reuben 
Hopkins, b. in Amenia, N. Y., June 1, 1748, son of Stephen 
Hopkins, who was born in Hartford. Mr. Hopkins was a 
lawyer in Goshen, N. Y., and clerk of the court. He d. in 1819 
in Edwardsville, 111. The following notice is taken from the 
Edwardsville Spectator, Aug. 17, 1822: "Another Revolu- 
tionary hero gone" ! Died yesterday morning in this town in 
the 75 th year of his age, Gen. Reuben Hopkins, formerly of 
Orange Co., New York. 

General Hopkins was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., in 
June, 1748. At the commencement of the Revolution he left 
the practice of the law, in which he was engaged, and joined the 
army which was contending for freedom, and never ceased to 
assert with his sword the rights of man until the independence 
of our country was achieved. 

At the battle of Bunker Hill he served as adjutant, as well 
as at Peeksville and White Plains. Our information is too 
limited to give in detail his military career, but that he performed 
his duty as a soldier is well authenticated. 

At the close of the war he returned to his professional duties, 
but not possessing a ready utterance, though distinguished for 
sound legal knowledge and discriminating judgment, he accepted 
the clerkship of the Circuit Court of Orange County, which he 
held for many years. 

During the late war (1812) he again appeared in arms at the 
call of his country. His conduct on that occasion is attested by 
the newspapers of the day to have been highly meritorious. 

Besides the military offices which he has held in regular grade 
up to that of brigadier-general, he has frequently represented 
the citizens of Orange County both in the Senate and the lower 
house. But however praiseworthy his patriotic zeal, we have 
the satisfaction of recording a fairer trait in his character. He 
was a pious, humble Christian. As he was free from that wild 
zeal which is "not according to knowledge," so was he free 
from fearing to "confess Christ before men." How well his 



54 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

life accorded with his profession we need not say. Those who 
knew him can bear witness to the constant zeal with which he 
strove to adhere to the divine precept, "Whatever ye would 
that men should do unto you/' etc. 

In the last trying scene his mind was calm, for his faith was 
bright, his hope was strong. In his own language, ''Death had 
no terrors, his sting was drawn, he kneii' in whom he believed." 
"Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." 

CHILDREN. 

1. Eliot, b. in Charlotte, Dutchess Co., Sept. 12, 1774; printer and 

editor ; m. Julia Howell, and d. in Cincinnati, O.. Jan. 16, 
1815, leaving six children. 

a. William H. 

b. Henry. 

c. Edward. 

d. Caroline. 

e. Stephen, etc. 

2. Benjamin Bronson, b. in Charlotte, Mar. 16, 1776; d. in Augusta, 

Ga., Sept. 22, 1852; m. Eliza Skelton of Princeton, N. J. 
Children : 

a. Margaret. 

b. Adelaide. 

c. Caroline. 

3. Mary (Polly), b. Dec. 2, 1777; d. 1820 in Cincinnati, O. 

4. Adelaide, b. in Sharon, Conn., Mar. 3. 1780; d Mar. 3, 1846; m. 

Samuel Hull of Sussex Co., N. J. They left a family. 

5. Rebecca, b. in Goshen, N. Y., Jan. 16, 1782; d. in Ontario Co., 

N. Y., Apr. 3, 1816; m. Samuel Seeley. 

6. William Hector, b. in Goshen, Nov. 12, 1784; d. at St. Louis, Mo., 

1840. He m. Frances Gardner Ruffin of Cincinnati. Children : 

a. Eliot R., m. Mary De Lisle Le Fevre; children. William, 

Frances, Theresa. 

b. Ashley Carr, m. Mary Chouteau of St. Louis. 

c. Adelaide Hull. 

d. Laura Gardner. 

e. Mary Frances, m. Luther T. Woods of St. Louis. 

f. Wm. Ruffin, m. Laura Hobbs of Baltimore; children, Warner 

Miller, Frances, Elizabeth Dorsey, Louisa. 

g. Richard Rockwell, m. ; children. Charles, Adelaide, 

Grace Miller, Alice, Abbie. 
h. Eliza Oliver, m. Wm. B. Miller; children, Isabelle, Mary 
Hopkins, Kate Tracy. 

7. Hannibal Mason, b. in Goshen. Aug. 8, 1788, and lived in the 

old homestead ; m. Mary Steward. 

8. Delinda, b. in Goshen, Mar. 25, 1792; d. May 28, 1823, in Madison, 

Morgan Co., Ga. ; m. Dr. Wm. Johnson of Madison. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 55 

49. ii. Mary 5 (Polly), b. July n, 1752; married about 1798 
Dr. Christopher Ely of Lyme ; d. about 1810, 
without issue. 
+ 50. iii. Samuel Smithson 5 , b. July 2, 1753 ; d. Apr. 22, 1812. 
+ 51. iv. William 5 , b. June 26, 1755 ; d. Sept. 1829. 
+ 52. v. Aaron 5 , b. Aug. 15, 1758; d. Aug. 5, 181 1. 

53. vi. Joseph 5 , b. Nov. 9, 1760 ; graduated at Yale Coll. 1784 ; 
physician at Montgomery, Orange Co., N. Y., then 
called Ward's Bridge, and had extensive practice. 
He married McKinster ; d. about 1798, leav- 
ing no children, 
-f- 54. vii. Benjamin 5 , b. Dec. 9, 1762 ; d. Nov. 1848. 

In the New Haven Gazette from Oct. 6 to Nov. 23, 1785, is 
an advertisement as follows : "Balloon Hats to be sold, by Aaron 
and Benjamin Eliot, at their store on Church st. opposite the 
church, where Ladies and Gentlemen may be supplied with" (a 
long list of articles a column in length follows). 
55. viii. Elizabeth 5 (Betsey), b. Dec. 9, 1762; resided with 
her brother Aaron in St. Genevieve ; d. unmarried. 



29. JOSEPH 4 , (Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). A.B. Yale Coll. 1742, 
Merchant in Killingworth (Clinton), Deputy to the General 
Assembly of Connecticut 1752, 1760, 1762. He married June 
7, 1748, Sarah Walker, dau. of Isaac and Sarah (Marshall) 
Walker of Boston, b. July 4, 1727, d. Nov. 19, 1769. 

CHILDREN. 

+ 56. i. Augustus 5 , b. June 15, 1749, d. March 31, 1774 in K. 
57. ii. Sarah 5 , b. July 24, 175 1, d. Jan. 1818. 

She married first, April 24, 1766, Rev. Eliphalet Huntington, 
successor of Rev. Jared Eliot, at Killingworth (Clinton). He 
was b. in Lebanon; A.B. Yale Coll. 1759; was settled Jan. 11, 
1764, and d. Feb. 8, 1777. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Sarah, b. Sept. 19, 1768, d. 1840. She m. Dec. 26, 1804, John 
Wilcox of Killingworth. Child : 

a. Eliphalet Huntington, b. Jan. 1806, m. 1st, , child 

Maurice; m. 2d, Clarissa Hull. 
4 



56 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

2. Mary, b. Sept. 29, 1770, d. 1853. She m. Dec. 23, 1805, Jonah 

Rutty of Killingworth, who d. Dec. 21, 1819. Child: 
a. Elizabeth Mansfield, b. April 1808, d. May 29, 1887. She m. 
first, Asa M. Bowles of Killingworth. Children: 
David Huntington. 

Ellen Mansfield, m. Aug. 13, 1852, Oliver Nichols Payne 

of Southold, L. I. Children: Edward Townsend, b. 

Oct. 10, 1853; Ellen, b. Aug. 1855; Anna Grace, b. 

Mar. 13, 1857 (m. Frank Hamilton Bartlett and has 

Eleanor Hamilton and Emily Eliot) ; Ernest Bolles, 

b. Aug. 6, 1862 ; Hugh Huntington, b. Mar. 28, 1870. 

Married 2d, Nov. 29, 1841, Rev. Owen Street, pastor of the 

High St. Cong. Church at Lowell for thirty years. He 

died May 27, 1887, two days before his wife. They had 

a single funeral service and were buried at Lowell, Mass. 

Children: Elizabeth Mansfield (m. George S. Dickerman, 

pastor of Church at Amherst, Mass.) ; and Edward 

Payson. 

3. Joseph, b. Jan. 15, 1776, d. May 20, 1847. 

Mrs. Sarah Huntington married second, March 10, 1779, Rev. 
Achilles Mansfield, successor of Rev. Mr. Huntington in Kil- 
lingworth (Clinton). Mr. Mansfield was born in New Haven, 
graduated at Yale Coll. in 1770 ; was settled Jan. 6, 1779, and d. 
July 22, 1814. 

CHILDREN, BY SECOND HUSBAND. 

i. Elizabeth, d. Apr. 20, 1808. She m. May 6, 1807, Austin Olcott, 

a physician at Killingworth, Conn. Child : 

a. Elizabeth Mansfield, b. Mar. 24, 1808, d. Apr. 25, 1871, m. 

Aug. 8, 1827, William Crane Willcox of New York, now 

(1904) of Phila. Children, Austin Olcott, William Henry, 

James Freeland, Charles Edward, Oliver, Elizabeth 

• Mansfield. 

2. Nathan, b. Aug. 6, 1784, A.B. Yale Coll. 1803, studied medicine, 

and d. April 6, 1813 in Killingworth. 

3. Susan, b. Jan. 31, 1786, d. Dec. 4, 1823. 

Soon after her death a book of "Memoirs" was written by Rev. Ben- 
jamin Wisner, pastor of the "Old South Church," Boston, which went 
through several editions in this country, and several in England and 
Scotland. James Montgomery, the poet, wrote an "Introductory Essay" 
for the third edition, and an original poem for the same. Some extracts 
from the "Memoirs" follow. 

"Mrs. Susan Huntington was a daughter of Rev. Achilles Mansfield of 
Killingworth (now Clinton) Conn. In this place her father was ordained 
in the year 1779 and continued the pastor of the first church until his 
death, in 1814. Her mother was Sarah Eliot, daughter of Joseph and 
Sarah (Walker) Eliot and granddaughter of Rev. Jared Eliot of Kil- 
lingworth, who stood in great esteem throughout the country for his 
learning, philosophical researches and acquirements." 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 57 

"Susan Mansfield was the youngest of three children. Her childhood 
was marked by sensibility, sobriety and tenderness of conscience, and a 
taste for reading. Her education was chiefly under the paternal roof, 
and at the common schools in her native town. The only other instruc- 
tion she received was at the classical school kept in Killingworth during 
two seasons. Her parents however devoted much of their time and 
attention to her instruction, and as her constitution was delicate from 
infancy, she was suffered to gratify her inclination in devoting most of 
her time to the cultivation of her mind, by reading and efforts at 
composition." 

"She was married at eighteen years of age to Rev. Joshua Huntington, 
a young minister of great promise, who had just been settled as pastor 
of the 'Old South Church' of Boston. One of her first letters written 
from that place says : 

" 'Our ride was very pleasant, I am delighted with the country around 
Boston, and think the town is handsomely situated. But, my dear friend, 
flattering as is the prospect before us, I cannot contemplate the responsi- 
bility of the station in which I am placed, its total dissimilarity to that 
to which I have been accustomed, and the arduous duties resulting from 
it, together with my own inability to perform them as I ought, without 
feeling a degree of anxiety lest I should be found wholly unqualified for 
the situation. Did I not believe that the bounds of our habitations are 
not accidental, but determined by the Providence of God, I should sink 
under the weight of responsibility which now rests upon me.' 

"God placed her when young and inexperienced in a most responsible 
and difficult station, where her character and conduct would be scruti- 
nized by multitudes, where hundreds of her own sex would be looking 
to her example for a model to imitate. 

"But this was not the only discipline which fitted her for her high 
destiny. Though not thirty-three years of age, when herself removed 
from this state of trial, most of her connections and early intimate 
acquaintances had been taken from her. At the age of twenty-eight she 
was written widow. An infant son, born two months after his father's 
death, and most tenderly beloved, was taken from her at the age of 
twenty months." 

She died of consumption in 1823. She married May 18, 1809, Rev. 
Joshua Huntington of Boston, who d. Sept. 11, 1819. Children: 

a. Susan Mansfield, b. Sept. 10, 1810; m. first, Charles Henry 

Strong ; children, George Augustus, Mary Huntington ; 
m. second, Dr. Wolcutt Richards of Cincinnati ; children, 
Harriet De Witt, Susan Huntington. 

b. Joseph Eckley, b. Feb. 11, 1812. A.B. Yale 1832. His name 

was changed to Joshua on the death of his younger 
brother. He was a man of high scholarly attainments. 
He never married. 

c. Sarah Ann, b. June 23, 1813 ; m. June 1832, Edward Boylston 

Huntington, a cousin, and a merchant in Boston. They 



58 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

were for years members of the Eliot Church in Roxbury. 
She was living in 1894. Children, Peter Lanman, Susan 
Mansfield, Edward Trumbull, Edward Norton, Mary Lan- 
man, Frederick Jabez, Elizabeth Moore. 

d. Elizabeth Moore, b. Mar. 6, 1815. 

e. Mary, b. Sept. 3, 1816; m. Jedediah Vincent Huntington, a 

cousin. 

f. Joshua, b. Dec. 2, 1819. 

58. iii. Mary 5 , b. Aug. 16, 1756, d. Aug. 20, 1856. 



30. NATHAN 4 (Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ), merchant and farmer 
in Kent, Conn. He was a member of the General Assembly 
fourteen sessions. He married Oct. 22, 1754, Clarina (or 
Clarissa) Griswold of Blackhall, Lyme, daughter of Governor 
Matthew Griswold and Ursula (Wolcott) Griswold. She was 
b. Feb. 9, 1733; d. Feb. 11, 1811. He d. Mar. 20, 1798. 

CHILDREN. 

59. i. Lucy 5 , b. at New Preston, Sept. 17, 1755 ; married Sept. 
7, 1781, Rev. Seth Swift of Williamstown, Mass. 
He was born in Kent, Sept. 30, 1749, graduated at Yale Coll. 
in 1774, was settled at Williamstown in 1779, and d. Feb. 13, 
1807. Mrs. Lucy d. June 14, 1845, at Killingworth (Clinton). 

CHILDREN. 

i. Ephraim Griswold, b. Aug. 14, 1782; d. Aug. 1857. Graduated 
from Williams College in 1804, and was ordained to the min- 
istry at Stockbridge, Mass., in 1810. He preached there as 
assistant to the famous Dr. Stephen West until 1818. He then 
settled at Oxford, Conn., and soon after married Miss Sarah 
Beach, a lady of great beauty and many accomplishments. 
Their happy married life was of short duration. She died in 
1821, her last wish being "Bury me by my child," the infant 
whose life was measured by months. Mr. Swift preached for 
many years at Killingworth, Conn., and was held in high 
esteem by all who knew him. He was a man of superior attain- 
ments, dignified and courtly in manners and appearance, a true 
gentleman of the "old school." 

2. Clarinda S., b. Apr. 23, 1785; d. Feb. 7, 1856. She m. Mar. 11, 
1809, Philo Clark of Washington, Conn. About 1822 they 
removed to Ohio with the intention of becoming missionaries 
to the Indians in the Northwest; but Mr. Clark becoming inter- 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 59 

ested in the church at Vermillion, remained there to be both 
financially and spiritually a veritable pillar of the church. He 
was also mayor and member of the legislature. He d. Sept. 
2, 1851, at Sandusky, O. Mrs. Clark then went to live with 
her daughter in Iowa. Children : 

a. Seth Swift, b. June 2, 181 1; d. Sept. 12, 1825. 

b. Joseph B., b. Feb. 24, 1817; d. Apr. 11, 1891. He m. first, 

Austria Logan of Washington, Conn. She died May 9, 
1864. Children: Laura Frances, b. Sept. 13, 1848; d. Sept. 
20, 1848. Edward Logan, b. Sept. 18, 1850; m. June 28, 
1881, Mary L Drake of Oberlin, O. Clara Helena, b. Feb. 
25, 1852; m. Feb. 26, 1889, Henry W. S. Wood of Cleve- 
land, O. Laura Austria, b. Nov. 13, 1853. — Joseph B. 
m. 2d, Sept. 2, 1865, Fannie M. Thomson. Children: 
Edith Margaret, b. May 28, 1868; Carl Thomson, b. 
Jan. 28, 1875 ; m. Nov. 15, 1902, Miriam E. Price of St. 
Louis, Mo. Child: Frances Marguerite, b. Nov. 11, 1903. 

c. Clarina H., b. Oct. 3, 1819; d. Apr. 23, 1901. She married 

Dec. 1846, John Johnston of Scotland. Children: Ida 
Adeline, b. Feb. 28, 1849; m. Sept. 29, 1867, Melancthon 
H. Welton of Madison, Wis. Children: Rena Belle, 
b. July 26, 1869 (m. June 4, 1895, Harry S. Simpkins ; 
child, Melancthon H, b. July 13, 1901). Clarina M., b. 
Feb. 2, 1874 (m. Sept. 29, 1890, Elbert G. Ashcraft of 
Chicago. Children: Welton, b. Nov. 30, 1893; Adeline, 
b. Sept. 20, 1897). Walter P., b. Sept. 2, 1852. Clark B., 
b. Nov. 27, 1853 ; m. Jan. 24, 1808, Gertrude Wade. Ella 
May, b. May 22, 1856; m. Aug. 31, 1887, Edward J. 
Goodrich. Child: Robert James, b. Aug. 6, 1895- John 
Lincoln, b. June 22, 1861 ; m. Oct. 25, 1889, Emma H. 
Hanna. Children : Harold C, b. Apr. 2, 1891 ; Wendell 
H., b. Oct. 9, 1893 ; Lawrence J., b. Aug. 24, 1897. 
Lucy Eliot, b. May 18, 1788; d. Dec. 23, 1862. She m. June 1, 
1813, Rev. Sylvester Selden, b. Oct. 19, 1786 ; d. Oct. 4, 1841 ; 
A.B. Williams Coll. 1807. He was a Congregational clergy- 
man. He preached at Westbrook and Hebron, Conn., where 
he died. Children : 

a. Henry Thornton, b. May 4, 1815; d. May 11, 1853; m. Dec. 

25, 1842, Emily M. Stevenson. Child: Henry Sylvester, 
b. Oct. 1844; d. Mar. 1885; soldier in Civil War. 

b. Cynthia Elizabeth, b. Dec. 19,1817; d. Aug. 19, 1879; m. 

Jan. 13, 1853, Selden Townsend May. 

c. Sarah Gertrude, b. Aug. 15, 1825 ; d. May 22, 1890 ; m. Sept. 

14, 1848, Sylvester Wooster Turner. Children: Henry 
Selden, b. May 22, 1851 (m. July 19, 1870, Gertrude S, 
Clark; child, Paul, b. Oct. 2, 1883). Gertrude May, b. Mar. 
2 9> J 855. Jessie, b. Aug. 22, i860. 



60 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

4. Nathan Eliot, b. July 10, 1790; d. 1852. He was in the War of 

1812. After the war he, with his brother Joseph, went with 
many other New England people to settle in the "Western 
Reserve," about forty miles from Cleveland, O. He never 
married, but lived with his brother until his death at Bir- 
mingham, O. 

5. Elisha Pope, D.D., b. in Williamstown, Mass., Aug. 12, 1792; d. 

in Allegheny in 1865 at the age of seventy-three. He was edu- 
cated at Williams College and Princeton Theological Seminary 
and ordained to the ministry at Boston in 1817. He offered 
himself to the American Board as a foreign missionary, but 
the Board being unable to send him, his long ministry of almost 
fifty years was spent in the cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny. 
During his pastorate in Pittsburgh he originated the "Western 
Missionary Society," which afterwards developed into the 
' "Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions." He was a man of 
exceptional gifts and of rare consecration, and the fruits of 
his ministry are being gathered to-day all over the world. He 
married Oct. 2, 1817, Eliza Darling Beach of Hanover, N. J., 
a great-great-granddaughter of Rev. Abraham Pierson, the first 
President of Yale College. She d. Jan. 30, 1871. Children : 

a. Henrietta Mary, b. Aug. 3, 1819; d. June 3, 1895; m. Oct. 

23, 1839, Rev. Edward W. Wright, b. Sept. 27, 1816; d. Sept. 
16, 1866. Children : Rev. Williamson Swift, b. Aug. 7, 
1840; m. May 22, 1866, Annie M. Davis; d. Jan. 24, 1904. 
Children: Edward W., b. Feb. 5, 1868; d. June 21, 1887; 
Henry Hall, b. Apr. 6, 1870; Will Eliot, b. Apr. 18, 1875; 
(m. June 29, 1904, Mary de L. Vincent). Rev. John Eliot, 
b. Dec. 17, 1842; m. May 27, 1869, Ellen M. Kerr. Chil- 
dren : Anne Bakewell, b. Aug. 29, 1870 ; d. June 5, 1871 ; 
Mary Swift, b. June 30, 1872; Gifford King, b. Mar. 19. 
1874 (ni. Apr. 19, 1900, Elizabeth Ball) ; Naomi, b. Feb. 14, 
1877; Euphemia, b. Mar. 15, 1882; d. Aug. 8, 1883 
Janette Eliza, b. July 3, 1846; s. Edward Elisha, b. Mar 
28, 1853; m. May 5, 1874, Agnes M. Alston; she d. 1896 
Children: Archie Gilmore, b. May 8, 1875; d. Jan. 24 
1895; Bertrand Edward, b. Mar. 25, 1877 (m. Sept. 1898 
Margaret Mitchell ; child, William Stone, b. Aug. 3, 1899) 
Agnes Alston, b. June 2, 1884; d. July 8, 1892; Fitch 
Perkins, b. Mar. 8, 1888. Lucy Henrietta, b. Jan. 9, 1858 
m. May 31, 1894, Albert H. Gerwig. Children: Henrietta 
Swift, b. Aug. 30, 1895; Mark Albert, b. Sept. 21, 1897. 
Elisha Pierson Swift, b. Feb. 25, 1862 (m. Sept. 6, 1883, 
Carrie Ellen Whippo. Children: Janette, b. June 13, 1886; 
Marguerite, b. June 28, 1888; Elisha Pope Swift, Jr., b. 
Aug. 25, 1897). 

b. Ashbel Green, b. 1821 ; d. in infancy. 

c. Samuel Beach, b. 1822; d. in infancy. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 6l 

d. Rev. Eliot Elisha, b. Sept. 8, 1824; m. first, June 5, 1849, 

Mary A. Huston. Child: Susan M., b. July 24, 1850; 
d. Aug. 1850. — Rev. Eliot E. m. second, Aug. 12, 1857, 
Frances L. Damon. Children by second marriage : George 
Damon, b. June 20, 1861 (m. June 30, 1885, Eleanor M. 
Blague. Children : Frances Damon, b. June 13, 1886 ; 
Carolyn, b. Feb. 18, 1888). Elisha Pope, b. Jan. 15, 1865 
(m. June 20, 1900, Mary Clark. Child : Eliot Elisha, b. 
Sept. 22, 1901). Mary Huston, b. Nov. 1, 1866 (m. June 8, 
1893, William F. Greenwood. Child : Eleanor Gray, b. Oct. 
10, 1897). 

e. Henry Martyn, b. May 4, 1827 ; d. Nov. 1853. 

f. Catherine Wilhelmina, b. Jan. 14, 1829; m. Sept. 15, 1852, Hon. 

Williamson Wright. Children : Mary Williamson, b. Aug. 
2, 1853; d. Feb. 2, 1857. Kate Eliot, b. May 2, 1855; m. 
Oct. 8, 1884, Edgar Page Tucker of Chicago. Children : 
Mary Wright, b. Sept. 23, 1887; Florence Henrietta, b. 
Sept. 20, 1893. Williamson Swift, b. Jan. 11, 1857. Eliza- 
beth Green, b. Oct. 25, 1858; m. Nov. 10, 1881, William 
Howard Barnhart. Children : Williamson Learning, b. May 
17, 1883; Elisabeth, b. May 25, 1887; Allan Wright, b. 
Aug. 13, 1899. Anna Lucy, b. Aug. 10, 1861 (m. Oct. 18, 
1887, Charles Wilkes Graves). Ettie Darling, b. Nov. 24, 
1862. Elisha Pierson Swift, b. Aug. 1, 1864; d. Nov. 
10, 1885. 

g. Joseph Patterson, b. 1831 ; d. in infancy. 

h. Rev. Edzvard Payson, b. Dec. 2, 1834 '» rn- May 30, 1872, Emily 

Griffin, who with their infant son d. 1873. 
i. Lucy Elizabeth, b. Mar. 16, 1838; m. June 15, 1865, J. C. 

McCombs. They live at Avalon, Pa. 
Joseph, b. Dec. 20, 1794; d. Feb. 12, 1893, at Grass Lake, Mich., 
at the age of ninety-nine years. He left his home at an early 
age, his father, a minister, having died. He enlisted in the 
army when about seventeen years old and served in the War 
of 1812. At the close of the war he and his older brother, 
Nathan Eliot Swift, with many other New England people, 
went West, settling' in the "Western Reserve," about forty 
miles from Cleveland, O. He took a large tract of land and 
lived there nearly fifty years, building a beautiful home, and 
was a man of strength in all good things. He was prominent 
in building up churches and schools and in all that makes for 
the public good. He m. Aug. 22, 1818, Elizabeth Root of West- 
field, Mass., b. Feb. 22, 1798, d. Feb. 22, 1888. Children: 
a. Joseph, b. Aug. 24, 1819; m. Aug. 1843, Electa Phelps Elder. 
Children: Ephraim Griswold, b. Dec. 9, 1844; m. July 23, 
1867, Charlotte Janet Goodrich. Child, Theodore Tenney, 
b. Nov. 20, 1871. Ella Mary, b. Nov. 9, 1848; m. Feb. 30, 
1879, Dr. Fletcher Rose Ross. Children : Joseph Swift, b. 



62 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Nov. ii, 1880; Sarah Elizabeth, b. Apr. 28, 1883 (m. June 
4, 1902, George Loomis Spence). 

b. Tryphenia, b. Feb. 5, 1822 ; d. Feb. 5, 1834. 

c. Heman, b. Oct. 28, 1824 ; d. Sept. 26, 1849. 

d. Elisha Ephraim, b. May 16, 1827; m. Jan. 5, 1853, Margaret 

C. Wells. Children: Mary Elizabeth, b. June 24, 1854; 
m. Nov. 5, 1879, James Byron Corwin. He died Apr. 6, 
1895. Children: Edith Swift, b. Aug. 22, 1880; Walter 
James, b. May 17, 1882; Margaret Elisabeth, b. Nov. 3, 
1889. Margaret Gertrude, b. Oct. 7, 1856; m. Oct. 7, 1875, 
William S. Winegar. Children : Frederic S., b. Mar. 19, 
1878; d. Mar. 20, 1879; Clayton Swift, b. Dec. 17, 1879; 
d. July 15, 1881 ; Claus Smith, b. July 24, 1881 ; d. Oct. 2. 
1882; Swift Wells, b. July 16, 1882; Edward William, 
b. Aug. 10, 1889. Lucy Alice, b. Dec. 27, 1858; m. Dec. 
28, 1887, Wm. A. Boland. Children : Ruth Wells, b. Feb. 
10, 1889; d. Apr. 12, 1890; Gertrude Woodward, b. Mar. 
18, 1892; Margaret Wells, b. Mar. 1, 1894. Josephine, b. 
June 20, 1861 ; m. Nov. 9, 1882, C. J. Peck. Children : 
Lucy Christina, b. Dec. 24, 1886; d. Jan. 31, 1890; Theodore 
Sherman, b. Nov. 27, 1891 ; d. Sept. 1, 1892; Robert Virgil 
and Roland Wells (twins), b. June 10, 1895. Theodore 
Wells, b. June 10, 1864; m. Mary Leland Miller. Children: 
Leland Miller, b. May 12, 1896; Gertrude, b. Sept. 28, 1901. 
Sarah Cooley, b. May 15, 1867. Grace Eliot, b. Oct. 13, 
1869; m. Sept. 28, 1888, Arthur L. Watkins. Children: 
Kenneth Wells, b. Aug. 8, 1889; Fanny Margaret, b. May 
4, 1892. Frances Mason, b. May 1, 1871. 

e. Lucy Elizabeth, b. Mar. 20, 183 1 ; m. Jan. 27, 1848, Stephen 

Griggs, physician, at Detroit, Mich. Children : Stephen 
Adelbert, b. Nov. 16, 1849; m. Minnie W. Langley. 
Children: Louise, b. Mar. 29, 1878; Edna Swift, b. May 
8, 1882 ; Elihu Cooley, b. Jan. 23, 1886. Frances Elizabeth, 
b. Dec. 29, 1851. Heman Swift, b. Nov. 19, 1857; m. May 
25, 1886, Louise. (Thompson) Clark. Lucy Eliot, b. Aug. 
23, 1864; m. Dec. 10, 1894, Harvey Farrington. Children: 
Harvey and Helen (d.), b. April 11, 1896; Eliot Griggs, 
b. Sept. 11, 1898; Edward Chandler, b. Dec. 18, 1900, and 
son, b. Feb. 20, 1904. 

f. Sarah Aurclia, b. Oct. 21, 1833; m. Sept. 7, 1854, Elihu 

Cooley. Child: Elizabeth Swift. 

g. Mary Amelia Bradford, b. Mar. 22, 1836; d. Apr. 17, 1872; 

m. Nov. 6, 1855, Frederic William Swift. Children: Anne 
Kitchcl, b. Mar. 13, 1859; m. Sept. 27, 1888, Adoniram 
Judson Burt. Frederic William, Jr., b. June 5, 1865; d. 
Oct. 4, 1865. Louise Bradford, b. Oct. 13, 1867; m. June 
30, 1902, Walter Robbins. Caroline Brooks, b. Jan. 23, 1870. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 63 

7. Sabrina Eliot, b. Nov. 2, 1798; d. 1868. Mrs. Sabrina Swift 
Logan was a woman of preeminent faith and godliness. She 
united with the church at the age of about sixteen years, in 
Saybrook, Conn, (now Westbrook). Her prayers, many and 
fervent, were presented with unwavering confidence in a 
sure answer. Her attachment for God's earthly house was 
beautiful, and her place there was never vacant except when 
she was providentially hindered from attendance. She loved 
the ministry; her home was open to them always and her 
hospitality was enlarged greatly. A former pastor says: "I 
can never forget the kind, encouraging words in the beginning 
of my ministry and I shall always feel that much of my success 
in this church was in answer to her effectual, fervent prayers." 
Her mould of mind was that of her giant brother Elisha. 
She had a sound, discriminating judgment; she thought deeply 
before assuming a position. Her laws were principles and the 
fear of God. Then she was firm as a rock in maintaining what 
she believed to be right. She married in 1826, Major 
Joshua Logan, b. 1794 at Dublin, Ireland, d. 1854 at Pittsburgh, 
Pa. He was a merchant, but served in the War of 1812, and 
was made lieutenant-colonel of volunteers in the service of the 
United States at Fort Meigs. Children : 

a. Julia Szvift, b. June 10, 1826 ; d. Mar. 5, 1900 ; m. 1848, John 

Rogers Blaine of Beaver, Pa. Children: John Eliot, b. 
Oct. 4, 1850; m. May 26, 1873, Ella L. Stow. Children: 
Augusta M., b. Aug. ir, 1875; Julia F., b. Mar. 27, 1877; 
m. June 1902, B. L. Thane of Juneau, Alaska; Roger 
Eliot, b. Sept. 20, 1879; m. Dec. 31, 1903, Ottilie Jones. 
Sabrina Swift, b. Feb. 28, 1854; m. Aug. 9, 1879, Charles 
M. Hobbs. 

b. Emily, b. Oct. 12, 183 1 ; d. Feb. 12, 1904; m. 1851, Thomas 

Allison. Children: Edward J., b. Feb. 8, 1852; m. Oct. 2, 
1889, Margaret M. McGaughey. Children : Dwight Moody, 
b. Feb. 18, 1891; Margaret M., b. Sept. n, 1895; James, 
b. Oct. 12, 1898; Agnes McGaughey, b. Sept. 25, 1900; 
Ruth, b. Sept. 2, 1903, died. 

c. Louisa, b. Nov. 14, 1833; d. 1878. 

d. Rev. David Swift, b. Jan. 9, 1834; d. 1864; m. 1859, Elizabeth 

Speer. 

e. Henry Eliot, b. June 4, 1837; d. 1862. 

60. ii. Nathan 5 , b. Feb. 3, 1757 ; d. Apr. 28, 1757. 

61. iii. Nathan 5 , b. Mar. 1758; d. Nov. 1759. 

62. iv. Clarina 5 , b. July 13, 1759; d. Aug. 14, 1802. She 

married Feb. 23, 1790, Jonathan Warner, Esq., of 
Canaan, Columbia Co., N. Y., b. Dec. 4, 1747 ; d. Apr. 
8, 1823. 



64 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Griswold Eliot, b. Mar. 19, 1791 ; d. Mar. 6, 1873; banker, presi- 
dent of Second Nat. Bank of Pittsburgh, Pa., also lumber and 
iron merchant. He m. at Geneseo, N. Y., Nov. 10, 182 1, Maria 
Sheffield, b. June 18, 1794. Children : 

a. Henry Clay, b. Aug. 18, 1824; d. Aug. 26, 1826. 

b. Augustus Eliot, b. Nov. 10, 1826; d. Sept. 12, 1837. 

c. James Sheffield, b. Apr. 29, 1828 ; grad. Union Coll., Schenec- 

tady, N. Y. ; d. Jan. 31, 1883. 

d. Maria, b. Sept. 7, 1829; d. Sept 12, 1830. 

e. Henrietta Williams, b. Oct. 16, 1831 ; educated at Packer 

Institute, Brooklyn. She m. at Allegheny, Pa., Dec. 4, 1851, 
Franklin Osburn, b. in London Co., Va. Children : James 
Warner, b. Mar. 6, 1853; Frank Chew, b. Dec. 20, 1854; 
Clarina Eliot, b. Dec. 25, 1856, d. ; Henry Augustus, b. Oct. 
8, 1858, d. ; Jennie Maria, b. Mar. 28, i860 (m. Wm. H. 
Olmsted ; children, Mary Warner, Roger Wolcott, Franklin 
Osburn, Margaret Stanley, Emelyn Stanley, Wm. Pitkin, 
Henrietta Eliot) ; Mary Eliot, b. Aug. 3, 1861 ; Adelina 
Beatrice, b. Mar. 13, 1864, d. ; Harry Griswold, b. Feb. 18, 
1866 (m. Edna Howard; children, Mae Marian, Henrietta 
Warner, Edna Howard) ; Robert Dudley, b. April 20, 1867 
(m. Bertha Howell; child, Virginia Wyllys) ; Wm. War- 
ner, b. Oct. 4, 1871 (m. Rosa Schley Chaplin; children, 
Laura Schley, Robert Dudley) ; Clara Louise Williams, 
b. Apr. 15, 1874 (m. Samuel Roberts Wilson ; children, 
Samuel Roberts, Franklin Osburn). 

f . Maria Jane, b. Jan. 25, 1836 ; d. Sept. 4, 1864. 

2. Thomas, b. Nov. 30, 1792 ; d. June 6, 1848. 

3. Nathan, b. Apr. 4, 1795; d. Apr. 2, 1828. 

4. John Eliot, b. Apr. 25, 1797; d. Feb. 10, ,1842. 

5. Clarina, b. July 19, 1799, at Canaan, Columbia Co., N. Y. ; m. 

at Allegheny, Pa., Rev. Hart Talcott of Killingworth, Conn. 
Children : 

a. Hart, m. Emma Munson. 

b. Clarina Eliot. 

+ 63. v. John 5 , b. Nov. 3, 1760; d. Dec. 13, 1845, in Penn. 

+ 64. vi. Matthew 5 , b. Dec. 1, 1761 ; d. June 26, 1827, in Ky. 
65. vii. Lydia 5 , b. Oct. 5, 1763 ; d. May 24, 1836. 

She married Jan. 4, 1785, Daniel Sherman Brinsmade, Esq., 
of Washington, Conn., son of Rev. Daniel and Rhoda (Sher- 
man) Brinsmade, of the Judea Society in Washington. He was 
Justice of the Peace for many years and d. Jan. 31, 1813. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Rebecca, b. Feb. 22, 1786; d. June 14, 1864. She m. June 13, 1821, 
John Mosely of Southbury, Conn., and was his third wife. 







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DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 65 

2. Lydia Clarina, b. Mar. 29, 1789; d. Aug. 22, 1821. She m. June, 

1814, Charles McMahon of Washington, Conn. 

3. Daniel Eliot, b. Dec. 3, 1792; d. July 18, 1863. A successful 

farmer of Washington, Conn. He married first, Sept. 9, 1819, 
Abigail, dau. of Simon and Esther (Farrand) Mitchell of 
Washington. She d. Apr. 26, 1835. He married second, May 
3, 1836, Orpha, dau. of Benjamin Sackett of Warren. Children, 
by first wife : 

a. Sherman Mitchell, b. Nov. 14, 1821 ; d. Dec. 19, 1893. 

b. Frederick Abner, b. Sept. 2, 1824; m. first, Mrs. Marila 

Sackett ; second, Kate Whittlesey of New York. Child, by 
first wife : Herman Hine, b. Sept. 17, 1876 of Menominee, 
Mich. 

66. viii. Phoebe 5 , b. July 13, 1765 ; d. 1858, aged 93 ; buried at 
Washington, Conn. She married Oct. 16, 1792, 
Abner Mitchell of Washington. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Elisha, b. Aug. 19, 1793, in Litchfield, Conn. [See his portrait 
in this volume.] 

He graduated at Yale College in 1813, one of the best students in his 
class. After several years of teaching in New London, and as tutor at 
Yale, he married, Nov. 19, 1819, at Lyme, Conn., Maria Sybil, dau. of 
Dr. Elisha North of New London, Conn. Appointed to the chair of 
mathematics in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he 
entered upon his duties early in 1818. 

He had previously been licensed to preach the Gospel, by the Congre- 
gational Church in Connecticut, and was ordained to the full work of 
the ministry, by Orange Presbytery, N. C, in 1821. 

But it was as a professor in the University of North Carolina that he 
displayed the greatest energy and accomplished the best results. Until 
1825, he was professor of mathematics and natural science, but was then 
transferred to the chair of chemistry, mineralogy and geology, which he 
occupied until his death in 1857. 

During all these years, by indefatigable research, by extended and mul- 
tiplied excursions over every part of North Carolina, by various and 
patient investigations, aided by a consuming thirst for knowledge, and a 
singularly retentive memory, he so ably filled his position, and branched 
out in so many directions that, on any scientific question, it was a com- 
mon thing to say, "Go, ask Dr. Mitchell." 

In the sixty-fourth year of his age, during his fifth visit of exploration 
in western North Carolina, he attempted, alone, to descend Mt. Mitchell, 
the highest peak of the Black Mountain in North Carolina. Being over- 
taken by a sudden thunderstorm, and losing his way the evening of June 
27, 1857, he fell forty feet, into a deep pool of a branch of the Caney 
River. 



66 DESCENDAJ^B OF JOHN ELIOT. 

As he failed to keep an appointment which he had made, his family 
and friends became uneasy, and searching parties were organized, number- 
ing at length scores of mountaineers and others, to find the missing one. 
After ten days of exhausting search, his body was found, at midnight, 
perfectly preserved from decay by the ice-cold waters of the cataract. 
Carried down the mountain on the shoulders of relays of men, he was 
borne to Asheville, where he was temporarily buried for one year. 
Thence, at the earnest request of the citizens of Yancey County and 
others, his body was conveyed by ox-sled, and lastly by the strong arms 
of men, up the mountain steeps, and through almost impassable rocky 
ways, where no road lay, and was reinterred with most impressive cere- 
monies, on the summit of the highest point of land east of the Rocky 
Mountains, which now bears his name. Here it rests, awaiting a glorious 
resurrection. 

A monument of "white bronze" twelve feet high was erected over his 
grave in 1888. (See illustration.) Children: 

a. Mary Phoebe, b. Dec. 19, 1822 ; m. Richard J. Ashe. Children : 

Richard Henry, Anna Caroline, Mary Sybil, Margaret 
Lloyd, Charlotte Elizabeth, Eliot Mitchell, Sophia Evelyn, 
Samuel Richard. 

b. Ellen Hannah, b. Apr. 23, 1824; m. Dr. J. J. Summerell. 

Children : Anna Maria, John Mitchell, Josephine Eliot, 
James North Howard, Elisha Mitchell, Gertrude Hope. 

c. Margaret Eliot, b. Nov. 21, 1825; living (1904) at States- 

ville, N. C. 

d. Matthew Henry, b. Sept. 30, 1828 ; d. in infancy. 

e. Eliza North, b. May 26, 1833; m. Richard S. Grant. Children: 

Edward Sims, Richard Mitchell. 

f. Charles Andrews, b. Oct. 7, 1838; d. 1866 at Memphis, Ala. 

g. Henry Eliot, b. Feb. 11, 1843; d. in infancy. 

2. Elnathan, b. Jan. 14, 1797; d. Dec. 7, 1867. He married, Aug. 30, 

1818, Harriet Wheeler, dau. of Abner Wheeler of Bethlehem. 
Conn., who d. May 19, 1867. Children : 

a. Eunice P., b. July 14, 1819; m. Daniel S. Lemmon. Children: 

Harriet Ida and Charles Edwin. 

b. Abner W ., b. June 26, 1821 ; m. Lydia E. Leavitt. Children : 

Frances Eliot, Charles Leavitt, William Wheeler, and 
Matthew Eliot and Mary Harriet (twins). 

c. Mary Helen, b. Jan. 12, 1833; m. Earle Buckingham. 

Children: Edwin Wheeler, Francis S.. Jennie \Y.. Elnathan 
Mitchell, infant son, and Walter B. 

3. Matthew Eliot, b. Nov. 15, 1799; d. 15, 1827. A.B. Yale 

1820. He married Jan. 1823, Eunice, dau. of Seth Noble 
Wheeler of South Britain, Conn., who d. in 1832. Children : 

a. Sarah Maria, b. Aug. n, 1824; m. Dr. Nathan C. Baldwin of 

South Britain, Conn. Children : Mary E. and Willard N. 

b. Elisabeth Ann, b. Apr. 16, 1827; m. first, David Curtis 

Hinman (child, Edward Curtis) ; m. second, Charles 
Cotteren of Red Bank, N. J. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 67 

-f 67. ix. Nathan 5 , b. Feb. 25, 1767 ; d. Jan. 4, 1828. 

68. x. Augustus Griswold 5 , b. Oct. 20, 1768; d. in 1834 

without issue. 

69. xi. Samuel 5 , b. July 25, 1770; d. 1774. 

-|- 70. xii. Richard Jackson 5 , b. Sept. 1773; d. Feb. 12, 1814, 
inO. 
71. xiii. Sarah 5 , b. Aug. 27, 1776; d. Nov. 2, 1840; m. Youngs 
Eliot, Aug. 12, 1799. (See Youngs Eliot 89.) 



31 JARED 4 (Jared'\ Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer in Killingworth. 
He married first, May 10, 1757, Elizabeth Walker of Boston, 
who died May 3, 1759. He married second, Apr. 7, 1760, 
Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Lord of Lyme, b. in 1735. 

children, by second wife. 
-)- J2. i. Jared 5 , b. Mar. 1, 1761 ; d. Sept. 25, 1841, in K. 

73. ii. Richard 5 , b. Apr. 7, 1762 ; d. June 10, 1762. 

74. iii. Isaac 5 , b. Apr. 17, 1763 ; d. July 27, 1763. 

-f- 75. iv. Richard 5 , b. June 3, 1764 ; d. July 5, 1848, in Wash., 
D. C. 

+ 76. v. Lynde 5 , b. Mar. 7, 1766; d. Aug. 3, 1817, in Wash., 
D. C. 
yy. vi. Elizabeth 5 , b. Aug. 26, 1768; d. Jan. 15, 1840. She 
married Oct. 15, 1787, Nathan Wilcox of Killing- 
worth, and Le Roy, N. Y. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Eliza, b. July 6, 1788, at Killingworth, Conn. ; d. Feb. 2, 1840, at 
Le Roy, N. Y. She married May 17, 1808, at Killingworth, 
Clark Selden. Children : 

a. William Augustus, b. July 3, 1809. 

b. Nathan Wilcox, b. Nov. 15, 1810; m. Harriet Dudley. 

Children: Two sons (d. in infancy), and Wm Henry, 
Nathan Eliot, Eliza Amelia, Stephen Dudley, Mary 
Elizabeth and Francis Granger. 

c. Edmund Clark, b. Aug. 8, 1812; m. Sarah Mount. Child: 

Agnes Eliza. 

d. Mabel Elizabeth, b. Nov. 11, 1814; m. William Bingham. 

e. Harriet Maria, b. May 4, 1817. 

f. Henry Eliot, b. June 13, 1819. 

g. Hezekiah, b. Feb. 28, 1821. 

h. Claudius Buchanan, b. July 6, 1822. 
i. Theodosia Jerusha, b. June 13, 1825. 



68 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

j. Richard Lord, b. Sept. 18, 1827; m. Eunice Maretta Wilcox, 
dau. of Stephen P. Wilcox. Children: Clara Virginia, 
Herbert Clark, Claudius Hubert, Mary Electa, and William 
Augustus. 

k. Mary Louisa, b. Oct. 18, 1829. 

1. Stephen Mortimer, b. Aug. 16, 1831. 
m. Jane Amelia, b. Aug. 13, 1833. 

2. Eunice, b. at Killingworth, Conn., Apr. 12, 1790; d. Dec. 8, 1825; 

m. Thomas Selden, Jr., brother of Eliza's husband. Children : 

a. Cynthia, m. George Clark. Children: George, two other 

sons and a daughter. 

b. Charles, and (c) Edward (twins). 

d. Sarah, m. Clark, a brother of Cynthia's husband. 

e. Mary. 

f. Augustus. 

3. Nancy Lay, b. at Killingworth, Conn., Feb. 28, 1792; d. June 14, 

1878. She married Oct. 9, 1812, Linas Pierson. Children : 

a. Edzvard O., m. Maria Nichols. Children : Ellen M., Augusta 

and Araminta. 

b. Ellen Eliza, m. Wm. R. Habert. 

c. Emma Nancy, m. Nelson Miner. Children: two daughters 

and one son. 

4. Nathan Eliot, b. Apr. 9, 1794, at Killingworth, Conn. ; d. at 

Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 30, 1814, of a wound received in battle in 
trffe war of 1812. 

5. Stephen Pierson, b. May 25, 1796, at Killingworth, Conn.; d. 

Mar. 30, 1871, at Le Roy, N. Y. He was also a son of battle. 
He married Oct. 20, 1819, at Le Roy, N. Y., Electa Mareta 
Nettleton. Children : 

a. Araminta Eliza, b. Aug. 2, 1821. 

b. Lucius Fitch, b. Aug. 14, 1823. 

c. Eunice Mareta, b. Aug. 25, 1825. 

d. Caroline Amelia, b. Sept. 3, 1827. 

6. Maria Mabel, b. Sept. 18, 1798, at Killingworth, Conn. ; died Mar. 

25, 1836, at Rochester, N. Y. She married Oct. 6, 1831, Rev. 
Peter Kimball. 

7. Catherine Ann, b. Apr. 20, 1801, at Killingworth, Conn.; d. Sept. 

23, 1871, at Rochester, N. Y. She married Nov. 10, 1824, 

William J. Wood. Children : 
a. Ann Eliza. 

1). Harriet L, m. C Kimball. Children: three sons and one 
daughter. 

c. Catherine Eliot. 

d. Elizabeth, m. Joseph Armstrong. Children: two sons and 

one daughter. 

e. William Eliot. 

f. Rev. Charles Wiltshire, m. Clara Hazard. Children : two sons 

and two daughters. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 69 

8. Mary, b. June 22, 1803, at Killingworth, Conn. ; d. Oct. 8, 1869, at 

Brooklyn, N. Y. She married Apr. 15, 1828, Mortimer Strong. 
Children : 

a. Harriet. 

b. Charles, m. Ellen Cook. Children, three daughters and one 

son. 

c. Sarah, m. John Walker. 

d. Henry, m. Agnes Patterson. Children: four daughters and 

one son. 

e. Julia. 

9. Jared Eliot, b. Oct. 4, 1805, at Killingworth, Conn.; d. Feb. 7, 

1884, at Le Roy, N. Y. 

10. Clarissa, b. Sept. 21, 1807, at Killingworth, Conn. ; d. Feb. 26, 

1852, at Le Roy, N. Y. 

11. Emeline, b. May 14, 1810, at Le Roy, N. Y., and died there Mar. 

6, 1872. 

78. vii. Nancy 5 , b. July 28, 1770; married Jonathan Lay of 
Saybrook, and d. May 25, 1852. 
-f 79. viii. Rufus 5 , b. Dec. 1, 1772 ; d. Oct. 29, 1826, in Wash. 

80. ix. Sarah 5 (Sally), b. June 17, 1775; married May, 1814, 

Boardman of Higganum. 

81. x. Catherine 5 , b. Feb. 1, 1777; died at Vernon, Conn., 

Apr. 3, 1858; married Sept. 26, 1805, Selden Gates 
of East Haddam, and Brooklyn, N. Y. He was b. 
Sept. 13, 1778, and d. Sept. 20, 1828. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Catharine (Caty) Ann, b. in Chatham, Nov. 23, 1806; d. Aug. 
IS, 1811. 

2. Jane Elizabeth, b. July 24, 1809; d. Apr. 29, 1832. 

3. Catharine Ann, b. Oct. 15, 1811, in Hartford; d. March 9, 1885. 

4. Sarah Ann, b. in Brooklyn, Apr. 3, 1817; d. at Cold Spring, L. I., 

Jan. 15, 1818. 

+ 82. xi. Augustus 5 , b. Aug. 10, 1779; d. J an - 2 3> 1816, in 
Killingworth. 



33. JOHN 4 (Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer in Guilford; 
member of the General Assembly fourteen sessions. He mar- 
ried Oct. 19, 1762, Experience, dau. of Robert Hempsted of 
Southold, L. I. She was born Mar. 6, 1742, and d. Mar. 22, 
1807. 



70 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

CHILDREN. 

83. i. Hannah 5 , b. Aug. 11, 1763; married Feb. 12, 1785, 
Samuel Landon of Guilford. She d. Sept. 9, 1847. 
He was b. Oct. 17, 1765, d. Aug. 23, 1793, and was 
the son of Daniel and Rebecca (Ruggles) Landon. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Nancy, b. Oct. 13, 1787, at Guilford; d. Nov. 6, 1869; rn. at 

Guilford, Sept. 27, 1897, George Griswold, son of Ezra and 
Mehitabel Griswold. He was b. Apr. 9, 1781 ; d. Feb. 7, 
1843. Children : 

a. George Cleveland, b. Oct. 31, 1809; m. Julia Chapman. 

b. Roger, b. Jan. 3, 1812 ; m. Sarah Coan. 

c. Hetta, b. May 25, 1814. 

d. Fitz Edward, b. May 15, 18 16. 

e. Hetta, b. Sept. 12, 1819 ; m. Wm. R. Hunter. 

f. Fanny, b. Oct. 27, 1823; m. Lewis R. Elliott (373). 

g. Nancy, b. June 18, 1826 ; died Jan. 30, 1892 ; m. Worthington 
W. Bartholomew. 

2. Hannah, b. Nov. 4, 1789. 

3. Henrietta, b. Nov. 4, 1789; d. July 16, 1861 ; m. Elihu Hill, son 

of Noah and Caroline (Parmelee) Hill. He was b. Apr. 30, 
1782 ; d. Jan. 10, 1852. They lived at Osceola, Tioga Co., Pa. 

4. Mary Ann, b. June 29, 1795 ; m. Michael Thorp. 

+ 84. ii. John 5 , b. Oct. 3, 1765 ; d. Sept. 30, 1794, in Guilford. 
+ 85. iii. Joseph 5 , b. Apr. 13, 1767; d. Jan. 11, 1829, in G. 

86. iv. Deborah 5 , b. Apr. 5, 1769; d. Nov. 1802; married 

Uriah Spencer of Guilford, son of Uriah and Olive 

(Stow) Spencer, b. Mar. 4, 1770, d. at Washington, 

D. C. 

Uriah Spencer seems to have been a man of note in Tioga Co., 

Penn., and held some public office at Wellsboro, the county 

seat. After Deborah Eliot's death he married again, and had 

sons, George and Charles. 

CHILDREN OF DEBORAH ELIOT AND URIAH SPENCER. 

i. Fanny, m. Vail. Children : 

a. William, murdered in Mountain Meadow massacre. 

b. Augusta, and (c) Augustus (twins). 

d. Eleanor. 

e. Henrietta. 

2. Horace. 

3. Nancy, b. Apr. 18, 1792; d. Sept. 21, 1873; m. John Maine, b. 

Nov. 29, 1779; d. Dec. 14, 1857. Children: 
a. Alexander, b. July 13, 1810. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 7 I 

b. Horace S., b. May 14, 181 1. 

c. Celia, b. Jan. 23, 1813. 

d. Samuel R., b. Aug. 16, 1816. 

e. Harriet, b. June 15, 1817. 

f. Uriah, b. Aug. 4, 1819. 

g. Deborah, b. Oct. 8, 1821. 

h. John A., Jr., b. Jan. 24, 1824. 

i. George D., b. July 24, 1826. 

j. Fanny A., b. May 24, 1828. 

k. Edwin R., b. Feb. 28, 1830. 

1. Sarah A., b. June 13, 1833; m. Richards. 

m. Eleanor M., b. Apr. 18, 1835. 

n. Charles, b. Sept. 4, 1839. 

4. Mary, called Polly, m. Elijah Welch. Children: 

a. Olivia. 

b. Uriah. 

c. Jefferson. 

d. Herrick. 

e. Amanda. 

f. Elmedia. 

g. Marietta. 
h. Phoebe. 

5. Harriet, m. Alford. 

6. Amanda, m. Ellis. 

+ 87. v. Edward 5 , b. May 28, 1771 ; d. Jan. 28, 1852. 

88. vi. Youngs 5 , b. June 6, 1773 ; d. Nov. 3, 1774. 
+ 89. vii. Youngs 5 , b. Dec. 31, 1775; d. Nov. 13, 1852. 

90. viii. Catharine 5 , b. Aug. 19, 1777; d. Nov. 5, 1843. She 
married Mar. 6, 1800, Amos Fowler of Guilford, 
son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Bartlett) Fowler. 
He was b. Aug. 27, 1773 ; d. Aug. 8, 1853. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Sarah, b. July 2, 1801 ; d. Jan. 14, 1840. 

2. John Eliot, b. July 24, 1803 ; d. July 29, 1838. He m. Nov. 29, 

1837, Harriet, dau. of Ambrose and Katharine (Ward) Leete. 
She was b. Feb. 14, 1808. 

3. Amanda, b. Sept. 19, 1805; d. Apr. 27, 1881, at Scranton, Penn. 

She m. Nov. 21, 1832, Deacon William Russel Stone, son of 
Bille and Rachel Ward, b. Sept. 18, 1806, at Scranton, Penn.; 
d. Dec. 5, 1889. Children, born at Mount Pleasant, Wayne 
Co., Pa. : 

a. Henry Augustus, b. Nov. 24; 1835. 

b. Charles Russel, b. Dec. 6, 1837. 

c. Henrietta Fowler, b. Dec. 12, 1839. 

d. John Ward, b. Apr. 10, 1842. 

5 



72 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

e. Catherine Eliot, b. July 20, 1844. 

f. Catherine Elizabeth, b. Sept. 22, 1845. 

g. George Eliot, b. Jan. 21, 1850; m. Martha J. Kays. Children: 

Eliot Kays, James Kays ; reside in Philadelphia. 

4. Henrietta, b. July 4, 1808; d. Oct. 2, 1846. 

5. Catharine, b. May 30, 1810; d. Sept. 24, 1828. 

6. Henry, b. June 30, 1812; m. 1st, Dec. 7, 1837, Sally Amelia Hart, 

b. Aug. 20, 1815; d. May 4, 1855; dau. of Wm. and Lydia 
(Griffing) Hart; m. 2d, June 19, 1856, Widow Maria Halleck 
(Griffing) Hart, b. Mar. n, 1820; d. Feb. 20, 1861 ; dau. of 
Wm. H. and Anna (Young) Griffing; m. 3d, Feb. 11, 1863, 
Julia Eliot Simmons, dau. (94 xii) in O. E. G. Children, by 
first wife: 

a. Catherine Eliot, b. Sept. 15, 1839. 

b. Clarissa Hart, b. May 15, 1842; m. Geo. L. Griswold. Chil- 

dren: Robert Eliot, Katherine Linsley, Charlotte Griffing 
(m. Oct. 12, 1904, Charles Newton Dudley). 

c. Henry Eliot, b. Mar. 13, 1848; m. Sarah Brown of Guilford, 

daughter of Samuel Wm. Brown and Hannah Humphreys. 

d. Amos, b. Aug. 13, 1853 ; d. July 1, 1903 ; m. Marie Washburn. 

Children : Elihu Washburn, John Eliot, Sallie. 

(Child, by second wife) : 

e. Annie Griffing, b. June 19, 1857 ; m. Geo. S. Davis. Children : 

Henry Fowler, Elizabeth Griffing, Annie Cornelia. 

7. Elizabeth, b. May 26, 1815; d. Oct. 18, 1846. 

8. Amos, b. Apr. 16, 1818; d. May 24, 1841. 

91. ix. Experience 5 , b. Dec. 31, 1778; d. May 12, 1803. She 
married Jan. 1803, George Leete, son of Pharez and 
Ruth (Savage) Leete, b. Mar. 29, 1782. After her 
death he married again, and d. in North Haven Dec. 
26, 1826. 
+ 92. x. Robert 5 , b. Feb. 28, 1781 ; d. Mar. 10, 1844. 

93. xi. Fanny Ledyard 5 , b. June 3, 1783 ; d. July 26, 1828. 
She married Apr. 3, 1800, Daniel Benton of Guilford, 
who d. Feb. 11, 1853. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Daniel Smithson, b. Jan. 22, 1801, at Guilford, Conn.. ; d. Feb. 
16, 1855, at Geneva, Wis. In 1844 he removed with his family 
to Wisconsin. A new prairie farm was bought, and on that 
the family lived. In 1851 the farm was bought by the son- 
in-law, John G. Flack, and is still owned by him. He m. at 
Windsor, Conn., Oct. 3, 1825, Sarah Marie Adams, b. Apr. 8, 
1808 ; d. June 17, 1849. Children : 

a. Ellen M., b. Feb. 23, 1827 ; m. John G. Flack. 

b. Elliott H., b. Aug. 26, 1828; served in Civil War. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 73 

c. Abigail Lindley, b. Mar. 31, 1831. 

d. Daniel, b. Dec. 8, 1832; lives in New York City. 

e. Benjamin, b. Dec. 17, 1834. 

f. Elihu Hill, b. Dec. 31, 1835; d. on the battlefield at Chat- 

tanooga, Tenn., June, 1865. 

g. Matthew Henry, b. July 2, 1838. 

h. Charles Henry, b. Dec. 31, 1840; served in the Civil War. 
i. Jennette Elizabeth, b. July 4, 1843. 
j. Harriet Arabella, b. Sept. 14, 1847. 

2. Urbane Wilf ord, b. July 2, 1802 ; d. 1826, at sea. 

3. Abigail Lindley, b. Aug. 1, 1804; m. in 1830, Lyman Hanks of 

Allegheny City, and died a few weeks after. 

4. Jared Taintor, b. Feb. 4, 1806, at Guilford, Conn.; d. Oct. 28, 

1873, at Auburn, N. Y. His boyhood days were passed under 
the parental roof, but on attaining manhood, he engaged in 
mercantile pursuits, first in Ovid, N. Y., in partnership with 
his brother, and subsequently in Pulteney, N. Y. He early 
developed a capacity and taste for public affairs. From 1830 
he was a prominent citizen of Steuben Co., holding the office 
of postmaster of Pulteney for twenty-three years, that of 
Justice of the Peace sixteen years, Supervisor of his town nine 
years, and various other offices of honor and trust, in all 
of which he discharged his duties with fidelity and credit, and 
established for himself a character for integrity and worth, 
that reflected honor on his name. For four years he was 
connected with the Custom House of New York City, and 
later held office at the Auburn State Prison, to which city 
he removed in 1857. His personal appearance was attractive 
and commanding, and he had originally the finest physique in 
a large family circle. He married in 1838, at Pulteney, N. Y., 
Lucy Ann Ball, b. Mar. 27, 181 1. Children: 

a. Abigail Lindley, b. May 18, 1839. 

b. Emma Virginia, b. Sept. 1, 1840; m. John Sym Bedell. 

c. Charlotte Elizabeth, b. June 10, 1843; d. Jan. 25, 1905. 

d. Urban Sherzvood Wilf ord, b. Jan. 25, 1845. 

e. Jared T. Julian, b. Dec. 25, 1846. 

f. Julia Ida, b. July 25, 1849. 

g. Lucy Manuela, b. Dec. 29, 1851 ; m. John R. Ross. 

h. Frances May, b. Sept. 23, 1854; m. Arthur G. Bedell. 
5. Youngs Eliot, b. at Guilford, Conn., June 8, 1807; d. July 2, 
1890; m. Jan. 16, 1828, Mary Anne Ely, b. June 26, 1809; 
d. Nov. 5, 1900. He was a farmer and lived at Linden, 
Genesee Co., Mich. Children : 

a. Fanny Elizabeth, b. July 12, 1829; m. Edward Eliot Simmons 
(94 xii 2). 

b. Ledyard Ely, b. June 24, 1831 ; m. Emily P. Moore. Children : 

George D., Anna Eliot, Edward Emerson, Fanny Ledyard, 
Abner Ely, Hurbert Winfield, and Willie P. 



74 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

c. Mary Lord, b. Sept. 16, 1833; m. Francis Sackner. Children: 

Eda Ethelinda, Minnie Arabella, and Musa Viola. 

d. Youngs Elliott, b. July 18, 1837 ; m. Alice Chapin. Children : 

Youngs Elliott, Mary Olive, Herbert Lester, Charles Elliott, 
and Reuben Howard. 

e. Sarah Fowler, b. Jan. 9, 1840. 

f. Lydia Griswold, b. Mar. 19, 1842. 

g. Laura Ely, b. Sept. 22, 1844; m. Theodore Crandall. Chil- 

dren : Floyd G., Lulu, Lottie, 
h. Cornelia Amanda, b. June 1, 1847; m - Alonzo B. Hyatt. 

Children : Wallace, Claude Elliott, Maud Ely, and Josie 

Benton. 
i. Joseph Augustine, b. Dec. 14, 1849. 
j. Jessie Augusta, b. Jan. 2, 1855. 

6. Fanny Ledyard, b. Feb. 10, 1810; d. Nov. 9, 1882. She married 

Dec. 31, 1829, William Prentiss of Steuben Co., N. Y., b. May 
10, 1801 ; d. Mar. 18, 1875, at Lancaster, Mass. Children : 

a. Cornelia Elizabeth, b. Apr. 30, 183 1 ; m. Charles N. Wixom. 

Children : Ella Frances, Fanny Augusta, Harriet Prentiss, 
Charles Frederic, Cornelia Elise. 

b. Catherine Fowler, b. Mar. 17, 1833. 

c. Harriet Augusta, b. Apr. 17, 1835; m. Monmouth H. Ganong. 

Children : Wm. Gilbert, Jessie Reynolds, Fanny Maria, 
Lillian Augusta. 

d. Luther Wright, b. Mar. 18, 1837 '■> m. Elsie Ann Van Syckle. 

e. Lillian Gertrude, b. Aug. 7, 1839; m. Norman Hunt. Chil- 

dren : Caroline Blanche, Floyd Prentiss. 

f. Wm. Augustine, b. Mar. 6, 1844; m. Jane T. Parker. Chil- 

dren : Mabel Irene, Charles Stanley. 

g. John, b. July 27, 1851; m. Adele E. Parker. Children: 

Stella Irene, Bertha P., Wm. Wright, Joanna E., Fanny 
Louise, Leon L. 
h. Martha Bridge. 

7. Elizabeth, b. at Guilford, Conn., Nov. 20, 1812; d. June 17, 1899. 

She married April 17, 1829, at Pulteney, N. Y., Marsena Baker, 
b. Nov. 6, 1803; d. Mar. 17, 1859. Children: 

a. Susan Eliot, b. June 14, 1832 ; m. Judge Nelson Cobb. 

b. Helen Elisabeth, b. May 24, 1838; m. Henry Wade. Chil- 

dren : Milton Henry, Helen Cecille. 

c. Frances Larnira, b. Dec. 31, 1840; m. Frank Gilbert. 

d. Winfield Scott, b. Nov. 20, 1846. 

e. Julian Benton, b. Nov. 6, 1848. 

f. Maria Antoinette, b. Dec. 28, 1852; m. Dr. Putnam Francis 

Peet. 

8. Experience Hempsted, b. at Guilford, Conn., Dec. 15, 1816; d. 

Mar. 10, 1875. She married, first, June 21, 1835, Edward 
Judson Hotchkin, b. Oct. 8, 181 1; d. Aug. 28, 1840. Child, 
by first husband : 






DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 75 

a. Amanda Simmons, b. May 10, 1837; m. first, Rev. Wm. A. 

Wolcott. Child: William E. ; m. second, Dr. G. F. Case. 

Child: George E. ; m. third, Samuel P. Marvin. 
Experience married, second, June 9, 1844, Nelson Ball, who 
d. at Ovid, N. Y., May 29, 1871. Children, by second husband : 

a. George Nelson, b. Dec. 6, 1845 ; killed 1864 at City Point. 

b. Edward Judson, b. Feb. 3, 1848; m. Clarinda Clark. Chil- 

dren : Wm. George, Julian Nelson. 

c. Julia Ann, b. Nov. 7, 1849; m. David Roff. 

d. Sherwood Salle, b. Feb. 5, 1852; m. Alicia Church. Child: 

Lillian. 

e. Eliot Augustine, b. Dec. 22, 1853; m. Rose A. Lealbetter. 

Children : Maggie S., Harrie C, Guy J., Edward J. 

f. Harrison Cleon, b. Feb. 6, 1856; m. Rose E. Horton. Chil- 

dren: Lloyd Benton, Ivan Horton. 
9. Joseph Augustine, b. at Guilford, Conn., May 7, 1818; d. Apr. 8, 
1892. He graduated with the highest honors at Yale Coll. in 
1842, and at Yale Theological Seminary in 1846. He went to 
California in July, 1849, to preach the Gospel, and to help build 
into this new land Christian life and civilization. He was 
organist and pastor of the church in Sacramento for thirteen 
years, editor of "The Pacific," and senior professor of the 
Pacific Theological Seminary. He was for more than fifteen 
years a member of the Home Missions Committee, and a writer 
of missionary hymns. He was devoted to the cause of educa- 
tion, and one of the foremost in founding the College of Cali- 
fornia, and of the academy that preceded it. He made a trip 
around the world in 1859, and was pastor of the Plymouth 
Church in San Francisco for five years from 1863. After this 
date he devoted himself chiefly to teaching theology, received 
from Yale the degree of S.T.D. in 1870, and was a member of 
the International Council of Congregational Churches in Lon- 
don in 1891. He married July 7, 1863, Frances Sargent, who 
died June 27, 1899. No children. 

10. John Eliot, born at Guilford, Conn., Oct. 24, 1820; d. Feb. 1888. 

He graduated at Oberlin College, studied theology at the New 
York University, and was a clergyman at Oakland, Cal. He 
married Nov. 8, 1850, Mary Park Seavy. Child : 
a. Mary Frances Eliot, b. Mar. 8, 1852. 

11. George Robert, b. 1822; d. Mar. 1827. 

12. Robert George, b. at Guilford, Conn., Sept. 14, 1827; d. July 5, 

1901. He lived at Oakland, Cal., and m. Jan. 23, 1855, Lydia A. 
Armstrong. Children : 

a. Lucilia Elizabeth, b. July 24, 1857. 

b. Mary Fannie, b. Oct. 27, 1859; m. Jesse A. Baldwin of 

Chicago. Children : Louise (m. June 13, 1904, Cecil Price 
Squires), Jesse R. (d.), Fannie L. (d.), Theodore W., 
Norman L. and Storrs. 



76 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

c. Silas Wright, b. Mar. 19, 1863. 

d. Joseph Augustine, b. May 30, 1865. 

e. Hadley George, b. July 7, 1867. 

f. Harriet Eliot, b. Sept. 23, 1870; m. Rev. Loyal L. Wirt. 

Children: Joseph Benton, George Boynton, Williston, 
Monica Alexandra. 

g. Acker son Eliot Armstrong, b. Sept. 29, 1872. 
h. Elizabeth Sara, b. Oct. 24, 1875. 

94. xii. Amanda 5 , b. June 27, 1787, at Guilford, Conn. ; d. 
June 30, 1 829. She married June 7, 1 82 1 , Tillinghast, 
son of Deacon Abel and Ruth (Wood) Simmons, of 
Paris, Oneida Co., N. Y. He d. Nov. 6, 1861. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Julia E., b. at Paris, N. Y., Mar. 25, 1822; m. Feb. II, 1863, Henry 

Fowler (90 viii 6). 

2. Edward Eliot, b. at Paris, N. Y., Mar. 22, 1826; d. Aug. 7, 1903; 

m. Fanny Elizabeth Benton, dau. (93 xi 5). Children: 

a. Mary Ellen, b. Sept. 16, 1854; m. George L. Brown. She died 

Jan. 18, 1905. 

b. Frederick Henry, b. Sept. 6, 1857 ; m. Josephine Helen Dike. 

c. Lincoln Fennimore, b. Nov. 17, 1864; m. Mattie May Brenner. 

d. William Benton, b. Sept. 3, 1868; m. Lulu Davison. 

3. Frederick, b. at Paris, N. Y., Mar. 3, 1829; d. Oct. 8, 1900; m. 

Oct. 31, 1854, Elizabeth Anna, dau. of Henry and Anne 
(Thornton) Carr. Children: 

a. Edzvard Elliott, b. Jan. 9, 1858; m. Sarah Jane Dygert. 

Children : Leslie Elliott, Gertrude Elizabeth. 

b. Henry Fowler, b. Aug. 12, 1863. 

c. Charles Abbott, b. Nov. 8, 1865; m. Mary Ann Lowell. 



34 GEORGE 4 (Jared 3 , Joseph 2 ,' John 1 ). Farmer and deacon of 
the church in Killingworth. He married July 27, 1766, Hannah, 
dau. of Samuel Ely of Lyme, Conn. She died in 1820. 



children. 



+ 95. i. George 5 , b. Jan. 27, 1767 ; d. Oct. 31, 1828, in K. 

4- 96. ii. John 5 , b. Aug. 24, 1768; d. Dec. 17, 1824, in Mad. 

(See O. E. G., page 96.) 
-f 97. iii.. Samuel 5 , b. Apr. 3, 1770; d. in 1817, aged 42. 
98. iv. Isaac 5 , b. Sept. 8, 1771 ; d. Oct. 17, 1794. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 77 

99. v. Timothy 5 , b. Mar. 20, 1773. He married Mary 
(Polly) Darrow of Greenwich. Was a physician 
at Unadilla, N. Y. He died at Oxford, Chenango 
Co., on his way to Connecticut, Nov. 2, 1796. 

100. vi. Mary 5 (Polly), b. Jan. 24, 1775; d. Oct. 9, 1858. 

She married, Nov. 4, 1813, Othniel Williams of 
Wethersfield, Conn. He graduated at Yale Coll. 
in 1810, and was a lawyer of prominence in his 
profession. They settled at Clinton, Oneida Co., 
N. Y., where he died Dec. 7, 1832. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Othniel Strong, b. Nov. 27, 1814; d. May 20, 1880. He gradu- 

* ated at Hamilton Coll. in 1831, was a lawyer, surrogate of 

Oneida Co., Judge of the Supreme Court, and treasurer of 

Hamilton Coll. He married Sept. 1, 1843, Delia, dau. of Prof. 

Chas. Amery. Children f 

a. Eliot Strong, b. July 5, 1845 ; m. Rachel Wood Squires. 

Children: Charles Eliot, Othniel, Ruth Delia, Mary, Delia 
Amery, Rachel, Sophie. 

b. Mary Delia, b. May 28, 1847; m. Henry Everett Daniels 

of Cayuga, N. Y. Children: Harriet McDonab, Williams, 
Janet Williams. 

c. Sophie Louise, b. Apr. 18, 1852 ; m. Abel Grosvenor Hopkins, 

Prof, of Latin in Hamilton Coll. Child: Mary Delia. 
2. Mary Louisa, b. Nov. 11, 1816; d. Aug. 28, 1837. 

101. vii. Hannah 5 , b. May 30, 1777; d. Oct. 9, 1819. She 

married, Oct. 7, 1801, Rev. John Niles. 
He graduated at Yale in 1797, and was a Congregational 
clergyman at Prattsburg, N. Y. In July, 1808, he was installed 
as pastor of the church in Bath, N. Y. He died suddenly, 
Sept. 13, 1812, while preaching an ordination sermon at 
Angelica, N. Y. 



George, b. Sept. 4, 1803 ; d. 1863. He married Mary Russell of 
Hamburgh, Conn. They removed to Michigan, where he died. 

Saloma, b. July 9, 1805 ; d. Sept. 2, 1854. She married, Nov. 7, 
1830, Abel Babcock of Chester, Mass. Children : 

a. Mary, b. 1831 ; d. 1845. 

b. Edward, b. 1834; educated at Hamilton College; removed 

to Avoca, Iowa, where he died. 



78 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

3. Mary Anne, b. Aug. 7, 1807. She m. first, John Stannard of 

Lyme, Conn., second, Feb. 19, 1829, Similias Brockway Ely 
(her mother's first cousin). Child, by second husband: 
a. John Eliot, b. May 3, 1830 ; m. Nancy Holmes Warner of 
Lyme. Children : Eliot Warner, Joseph Niles. 

4. Thomas, b. Nov. 14, 1809; d. in infancy. 

5. Susan, b. Aug. 26, 1811; d. in infancy. 

+ 102. viii. Achilles Henry 5 , b. July 26, 1781, in Killingworth ; 
d. Jan. 9, 1856. 
103. ix. Ely 5 , b. Feb. 14, 1784; d. May, 1789. 



35. NATHANIEL 4 (AbieP, Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer in Guil- 
ford. He married Jan. 3, 1754, Beulah, daughter of Joseph 
Parmelee of Guilford. She was born Aug. 30, 1732, and died 
Sept. 16, 1818. 

No very satisfactory records have been obtainable of the 
Parmelee family. John Parmelee, one of the first settlers of 
Guilford, and one of the twenty-five signers of the plantation 

covenant in 1639, married Hannah ; son, John Parmelee, 

Jr., b. about 1620, married (3d) Hannah ; son, Isaac, b. 

Nov. 21, 1665, who married 1689, Elizabeth Hiland, or 
Highland ; son, Joseph, b. Sept. 14, 1694, married Abigail 
Kimberly (daughter of Natl. Kimberly, Jr.), and their 
daughter Beulah married Nathaniel Eliot. 

CHILDREN. 

+ 104. i. William 5 , b. Feb. 10, 1755 ; d. Feb. 14, 1833, in Guil- 
ford. 
105. ii. Mary 5 , b. May 1, 1762; married Sept. 20, 1787, Israel 
Halleck of Dutchess Co., N. Y., a descendant of Peter 
Halleck (or Hallock), who came over with their 
pastor, Rev. John Youngs, and landed at New Lon- 
don, Conn., in Nov. 1640. The Hallecks went the 
same year to Long Island, and some of their descend- 
ants still reside in the vicinity of Aqueboque and else- 
where. Mary died Sept. 10, 1819. Israel died Nov. 
7. 1839, aged 84. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 79 

CHILDREN. 

i. Maria, b. July 19, 1788; d. Apr. 21, 1870, in G. 

2. Fitz-Greene, b. July 8, 1790; d. Nov. 19, 1867, in G. 

It is difficult to write an estimate of the life and work of Fitz-Greene 
Halleck or to explain the charm of the man unless we recall the flavor 
of the times he lived in and the names of his contemporaries. The 
early part of the nineteenth century following the war of 1812 was 
marked by strong literary tendencies. There was a demand for poetry 
and belles letters, and it was at the beginning of this epoch, whose 
greatest brilliancy was not attained until after the Civil War, that Fitz- 
Greene Halleck flourished. The period produced such men as Wash- 
ington Irving, Cooper, Channing, Richard H. Dana, N. P. Willis, James 
Rodman Drake (author of the "Culprit Fay"), Prescott, Percival, Haw- 
thorne, and Bryant, and was the forerunner of the years when Whittier, 
Longfellow and Emerson reached the zenith of their fame. In England 
Byron and Scott, Dickens and Thackeray were making their great 
reputations and Browning and Tennyson were beginning to astonish 
the world with their genius. Fitz-Greene's career reads like a romance — 
the only link lacking to complete the chain was "the one woman," for 
though loving women with delicacy and sentiment and beloved by them 
in turn, he lived and died unmarried. He was born in Guilford in 
1790, and his earlier as well as his later years were passed in that 
historic town. As soon as he was taught to write he took to rhyming 
and to reciting pieces. He was a pupil of that period which produced 
Gray's Elegy, the Lady of the Lake, and the Pleasures of Hope, and 
was a voracious reader of the four hundred volumes the Guilford 
Library then possessed. At the age of fifteen he entered the store of 
his kinsman, Andrew Eliot, with whom he remained as clerk six years. 
He was noted during his whole business life, which lasted till 1850, 
for celerity, correctness and courtesy. The long confinement in a 
country store did not prevent him from composing many pretty verses, 
for "it was his nature to blossom into song as it is a tree's to leaf itself 
in April." 

When twenty-one years old he left his native village for the wider 
life of New York, then a city of ninety thousand people. He entered 
the counting house of Jacob Barker, one of the leading bankers of the 
town, and began that career which brought him into contact with all 
the famous men of his day. 

His Life and Letters, edited by James Grant Wilson, are good read- 
ing and give a vivid picture of the life of those times. His many 
talents and his winning ways soon procured for him a host of friends, 
and later his merit as a poet won ready recognition. He was one of 
the members of the "Iron Greys," organized in New York in 1814, 
and including in its ranks one hundred and twelve of the leading young 
men of New York; also a charter member of the "Ugly Club," a 
convivial club composed of very handsome young men and of which 
he was "poet laureate" ; he took part in all the best social life of 



8o DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

the period. Later in life the poet remarked that in those days his 
New Year's calls were with a single exception made below Canal 
street, the exception being Mrs. Stuyvesant, whose residence was so 
remote (the present Stuyvesant Square) that a carriage was always 
taken to go there. One of his lodging houses was 29 Wall street. 
A letter written home in 1816 describes a trip he took to Philadelphia, 
Baltimore, Washington and Mt. Vernon. In March, 1819, "The 
Croakers" first appeared, a series of satirical and quaint chronicles on 
people and things of local interest written in rhyme and anonymously 
contributed to the New York Evening Post. This was the joint pro- 
duction of Halleck and Drake. Next "Fanny," and in 1827 "Alnwick 
Castle, and other Poems," comprising all of Halleck's published work 
up to that time, was printed in a single volume. "Marco Bozzaris," of 
which James Grant Wilson said in 1869, "no finer martial lyric has been 
produced" and of which the then Greek minister said, "It is the link 
between America and Greece," was written in 1823, after a visit to 
Europe, which included travels in Great Britain, France, Switzerland, 
and Germany. It was tossed off one day and left at the lodgings of 
a friend to whom he was accustomed to show, his poetic work with 
the simple question, "Will this do?" 

It was first published in the New York Review and attained instant 
popularity, yet so unconscious was the writer of its real merit that his 
own family did not know of it till several years later. It has been 
translated into many languages besides the Greek, and is possibly the 
best known lyric of that period. 

In 1837 an Authors Club was formed in New York, of which 
Washington Irving was president and Fitz-Greene Halleck vice presi- 
dent. He became well acquainted with Dickens during his first visit 
to America, also with Prince Louis Napoleon and Lafayette, Thackeray, 
the Keans, Macready, and every man of distinction of the time. He 
was one of the most popular "diners out" in New York. In 1837 
Columbia College conferred on him the title of A.M. After he left 
the service of Jacob Barker, when the latter retired about 1831, he 
became confidential secretary to John Jacob Astor, and when John 
Jacob died in 1848 he left the poet a legacy of forty pounds a year. 
This with the royalties derived from the sale of his poems gave him 
a comfortable if not a large income for the rest of his days. Wilson 
says his literary labors brought him in altogether only seventeen 
thousand five hundred dollars ! He spent the last fifteen years of his 
life in dear old Guilford with his sister, making frequent visits to 
New York at first, but becoming more and more fond of privacy and 
solitude. His work appeared only a few times during the last years 
when he gave us "Connecticut" and "Young America," but they added 
little to his fame. 

The writer of this sketch has in her possession a copy of "Young 
America" with his name written on the flyleaf, which he gave her as 
a child, and she well remembers his white beard, his kindly, twinkling 
blue eyes, his courtly bow and the great reverence with which she 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 8l 

regarded him. The relation between his sister and himself was most 
tender and pathetic. She gave the intimate feminine touch to his life 
and followed him to the grave. A beautiful shaft in Alderbrook Ceme- 
tery, Guilford, marks his consecrated resting place. 

An estimate of the poet is difficult to frame. We feel the charm 
but cannot analyze it. Halleck did not belong to the school of rapid 
writers nor did he belong to the prolific school who write too much. 
Twenty years nearly covers the period of his literary productiveness. 
He excels in playful humor, light satire and tender sentiment. In an 
article written about him Bryant the poet says : "In the midst of a 
strain of harmonious diction he surprises by a a stroke of ridicule 
. . . " "He venerates the past and laughs at the present . . ." 
"His poetry is remarkable for the melody of its numbers, it is con- 
structed to please an ear naturally fine . . ." "In no poet can be 
found passages which flow with more sweet and liquid smoothness." 
. . . Poe wrote of him, "There is something, too, in the bonhommie 
of certain of his compositions altogether distinct from poetic merit, 
which has aided to establish him, and much also must be admitted on 
the score of his personal popularity which is deservedly great." 

"With all allowances, however, there will still be found a large amount 
of poetical fame to which he is entitled." 

For grace, natural wit, refinement of fancy, and that delicate handling 
which is called true art, we may among all the poets of the first forty 
years of the nineteenth century award the palm to Halleck. 

Wilson says, "Is it too much to say of Halleck as he said of Burns" : 

"There have been loftier themes than his 
And longer scrolls and louder lyres 
And lays lit up with Poesy's 
Purer and holier fires. 

Yet read the names that know not death, 
Few nobler ones than his are there 
And few have won a greener wreath 
Than that which binds his hair." 

[W. H. E. E.] 

3. Nathaniel E., b. Nov. 1792; d. Sept. 29, 1793. 



36. WYLLYS 4 (AbiaP, Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer in Guilford. 
He married July 20, 1763, Abigail, widow of Dr. Giles Hull and 
dau. of Col. Andrew Ward of Guilford. Abigail was born Apr. 
22, 1731 ; d. Apr. 18, 1801. After Mr. Eliot's death Abigail 
m. Samuel Parmelee. 



82 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

CHILDREN, BY WYLLYS. 

+ 106. i. Samuel 5 , b. Mar. 25, 1764; d. Sept. 12, 1843, m G. 

107. ii. Abigail 5 , b. Mar. 25, 1764; d. May 4, 1764. 

108. iii. Abigail 5 , b. Aug. 8, 1765; d. Sept. 18, 1769. 

109. iv. Elizabeth 5 , b. Dec. 29, 1766; married Jan. 16, 1790, 

Preserved Betts, son of Samuel Comstock and 
Mary (Tyler) Betts, of Richmond, Mass., and 
subsequently of New York City. He was b. Aug. 
J 3> x 759; d. Jan. 31, 1818. Mrs. Betts d. Dec. 1, 
i853- 

CHILDREN. 

i. Laura, b. Oct. 23, 1791 ; d. Sept. 21, 1875. 

2. Maria E., b. Apr. 22, 1803 ; d. Nov. 30, 1865. Laura and Maria 

were Principals of a Female Boarding School in Brooklyn, 

N. Y. 

+ no. v. Reuben 5 , b. Aug. 23, 1768; d. Oct. 18, 1844, in G. 

-f- in. vi. Andrew 5 , b. July 11, 1770; d. July 25, 1824, in G. 
112. vii. Sarah 5 , b. Feb. 29, 1772 ; married Oct. 21, 1798, John 
Scoville, Esq., son of John of Waterbury and New 
Haven. She d. Feb. 12, 1852. He was born Aug. 
12, 1770, and d. Aug. 17, 1816. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Charles Montgomery, b. Dec. 23. 1807; d. Sept. 15, 1808. 

2. Charles Eliot, b. Aug. 10, 1810; d. Feb. 4, 1859. 

3. Mary Ward, b. Dec. 18, 1812; d. July 2, 1868, at New Haven; 

buried at Woodlawn, N. Y. ; m. Aug. 15, 1833, Frederic J. 
Betts, son of Uriah Betts of New York City and Newburgh, 
N. Y. He was b. July 2, 1803 ; d. at Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 12, 
1879; buried at Woodlawn. Frederic Betts was born in Guil- 
ford, received the degree of A.B. from Williams College in 1821, 
at the age of 19 years, and studied law with Aaron Burr and 
others. He began the practice of law in Orange Co., N. Y., 
soon came to New Haven, removed to Newburgh, N. Y., after 
marrying and remained there many years. For twenty years 
he was clerk of the U. S. District Court of N. Y., under 
his brother, Judge S. C. Betts, and in this position amassed 
a fortune. He was at one time Judge of the Superior Court 
at Lynchburg, Va. In politics he was a Democrat. He was 
a member and vestryman of St. Paul's Church, New Haven, 
for several years. Children of Frederic and Mary Ward 
(Scoville) Betts : 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 83 

a. Charles Scoville, b. Nov. 7, 1834. 

b. Mary Eliot, b. Apr. 9, 1837. 

c. Sarah Eliot, b. Jan. 7, 1841 ; m. Wm. E. Foster of Buffalo, 

N. Y. Children : Mary H., Frederic B., Louise H. 

d. Frederic Henry, b. Mar. 8, 1843 ; an eminent lawyer in New 

York ; m. Louise Holbrook. Children : Louis, Frederic 
Holbrook, Mary Eliot, Wyllys Rosseter. 

e. Charles Wyllys, b. Aug. 13, 1845; lawyer of New York City, 

graduate of Yale, Chorister of Trinity Church, N. Y., 
where there is a memorial tablet. 

In Memoriam 

Caroli Wyllys Betts 

Obit Mdccclxxxvii Aet. xli. 

Qui ad Dei Gloriam Atque in Pace. 

Anima Sua Multa inter hujus domus domini 

cantatores sua sponti diutius stetit 

Beati mundo corde quoniam deum videbunt. 

Matt. v. viii. 

113. viii. Abigail 5 , b. Dec. 15, 1773; married Feb. 10, 1793, 

Levi Gregory, Esq., son of Ezra Gregory of Milton. 
He was b. Aug. 12, 1767; d. Oct. 5, 1807. 

CHILD. 

I. Eliot Wyllys, b. Feb. 13, 1794; d. July 3, 1863. He m. Nov. 13, 
1851, Charlotte, dau. of Wm. Sellick, Esq., of Milton. She was 
b. Sept. 15, 1813; d. Oct. 27, 1895, in N. Y. 

114. ix. Ruth 5 , b. Oct. 2, 1776; d. Feb. 22, 1856. She mar- 

ried Jan. 16, 1816, Rev. David Baldwin of Litch- 
field and Guilford. He was b. Feb. 4, 1780; d. 
Aug. 2, 1862. 

CHILDREN. 

I. William Ward, b. May 7, 1818 ; d. Jan. 24, 1902, in N. Y. He m. 
Jan. 24, 1846, Catharine, dau. of Henry Van Schaick of Lan- 
singburgh, N. Y. Children : 

a. Henry Van Schaick, b. June 21, 1848; d. 

b. Catharine Lansing, b. Sept. 23, 1850; d. 



38. TIMOTHY 4 (AbiaP, Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer in North 
Guilford. He married May 26, 1772, Rebecca, dau. of Jacob 
Rose of North Branford. She was b. July 16, 1747, and died 
Aug. 30, 1827. 



+ 115- 


l. 


+ n6. 


ii. 


+ tvj. 


iii 


118. 


IV. 



84 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

CHILDREN. 

Timothy 5 , b. July 1, 1772 ; d. Oct. 30, 1848 in Durham. 

William Rose 5 , b. Nov. 23, 1773 ; d. July 29, 1858. 

Wyllys 5 , b. Jan. 30, 1779 ; d. Feb. 25, 1856, at G. 

Henry 5 , b. June 2, 1782 ; d. Dec. 20, 1864. He was 

a farmer in Guilford ; married Nov. 23, 1823, Nancy, 

dau. of Daniel Hitchcock of Prospect. She was b. 

Jan. 23, 1803 ; d. Apr. 14, 1866. 

119. v. Harvey 5 , b. Nov. 23, 1784, at North Guilford, Conn.; 

d. Feb. 3, 1824. 

He was prepared for Yale College by his kinsman, the Rev. 

John Eliot of East Guilford, Conn., from which he graduated in 

1805. After leaving college he kept private schools in New 

Rochelle and Mamaroneck, N. Y., at the same time pursuing 

medical studies. At first he practised his profession by the 

authority of a license from the State of New Jersey. In 1817 

he received the degree of M.D. from the College of Physicians 

and Surgeons of New York City. He was the leading physician 

in Harlem and the adjacent country on Manhattan Island and 

in Westchester Co., N. Y. He was buried in Harlem, where 

his gravestone recounted that "he enjoyed the confidence and 

esteem of a large and respectable community, by whom his loss 

is deeply regretted." In 1867 his remains were removed to his 

native parish of North Guilford. By his will he left a valuable 

library and surgical instruments to the first of his nephews who, 

having graduated in the art, should become a physician. These 

were inherited by Dr. Ellsworth Eliot of New York City. 



42. JOHN 5 (John*, John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ). He is said to have 
been educated at either Yale or Harvard, to have entered the 
ministry, and to have taught school in New Haven when young. 
The Connecticut Journal (New Haven, Conn.) of March 31, 
1808, has this, under the heading of deaths: "At the Alms 
House in this city, John Eliot, aged 63, descended from a 
respectable and opulent family in this city, and well known in 
most parts of the country for his perambulating and wandering 
disposition." From this, and other facts in his life which have 
come down to us, he would in our time unquestionably be pro- 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 85 

nounced insane, although then not so considered. His marriage, 
Jan. 21, 1795, was thus announced in the Connecticut Journal: 
"Entered into the connubial circle, Mr. John Eliot, late an 
instructor of youth in New Haven, with Mrs. Sarah Harlow of 
Branford." In regard to Mrs. Harlow, the Connecticut Journal, 
April 2.2., 1802, contains an interesting obituary sketch, "Died 
in her Mansion house in North Branford, Mrs. Sarah Eliot, by 
some called Mrs. Harlow, on the 7 th inst. She was found dead 
in her bed about seven o'clock in the morning, the particular 
cause being unknown, aged sixty-one years. She was a woman 
whose fortitude and resolution had been thoroughly tried, by a 
long series of bodily pains and infirmities, and whose philan- 
thropy, generosity, integrity, and honesty, were generally and 
happily experienced, and always well known, by her numerous 
acquaintance." 



44. RICHARD ROSEWELL 5 {John 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ) He 
was a minister at Watertown, Mass. He was graduated at 
Harvard Coll. in 1774. After leaving college he taught school 
at Woodstock, Conn., and studied divinity under Rev. Mr. 
Leonard of that place. In 1779 he was appointed a tutor in 
Harvard College, and held that office until he received a call 
to Watertown, March 13, 1780. He was ordained June 21. 

His published writings are as follows : "A Discourse delivered 
at Athol, at the consecration of a Lodge, Oct. 13, 1803"; "A 
Discourse delivered at Dedham, at the consecration of Constella- 
tion Lodge, Oct. 19, 1803" ; "Two Sermons preached at Water- 
town, Sept. 30, and Oct. 7, 1810" ; "Two Sermons preached at 
Watertown, Sept. 22, 1816." 

He married at Lyme, Conn., Oct. 5, 1780, Catherine Johnson. 

For a more extended notice of 44, see O. E. G., page 81. 



50. SAMUEL SMITHSON 5 (Aaron 4 , Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). 
Merchant and farmer in Sharon, Conn. A man of large stature, 
which is rather a peculiarity of the race. He married first, 
March 28, 1779, Margaret, b. Mar. 17, 1752, d. Oct. 27, 1802, 
dau. of Col. John Williams of Sharon, son of Park Williams of 
Lebanon, and prominent among the settlers of Sharon. He was 



86 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

a physician and sustained, besides his military honors, the offices 
of deacon, judge, etc., and often represented his town in the 
General Assembly. He married second, July 17, 1803, Sarah, 
dau. of Joseph Bailey of Sharon, b. Dec. 19, 1765 ; d. Apr. 4, 
1834, in Michigan. 

CHILDREN (EIGHT), BY FIRST WIFE. 

+ 120. i. Samuel Williams 6 , b. Mar. 31, 1780; d. Aug. 30, 

1 83 1, in New York, 
-f- 121. ii. William Worthington 6 , b. Apr. 21, 1782; d. Oct. 

13, 1839, m Michigan. 

122. iii. Hannah 6 , b. May 12, 1784; d. May 12, 1830. She 

married about 181 4, Daniel B. Stowe, tanner and 
shoemaker, Claverack, N. Y. 

CHILD. 

1. Chauncey Eliot, b. Jan. 19, 1821 ; harness maker, resided at one 

time in Buchanan, Berrien Co., Mich. 

123. iv. Margaret 6 , b. June 19, 1786; d. in Rochester, N. Y., 

Nov. 4, 1836. She married Sept. 6, 181 1, Salmon 
Hunt, son of Phineas Hunt of Sharon. He d. Jan. 
7, 1876; buried at Paw Paw, Mich. He resided in 
Northampton, N. Y., and afterwards in Rochester. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Margaret Emily, b. Sept. 4, 1813, in Sharon, Conn. ; d. May 29, 
1879. She m. July 17, 1846, at Paw Paw, Mich., Nathan 
Pugsley of Ilfracombe, England, b. Aug. 21, 1816; d. Nov. 21, 
1893. Children : 

a. George Henry, b. July 30, 1847; rn. Sarah Tuttle. Children: 

Lynn, Bertha Margaret, Grace. 

b. Jennie Eliot, b. Sept. 18, 1850. 

c. Ella Louise, b. Feb. II, 1852. 

d. Emma Margaret, b. Aug. 2, 1855; m. Samuel C. Andrews 

of Ann Arbor, Mich. Children : Lorrin Claudius, Mabel 
Pugsley, Louisa Alcott, Howard. 

2. William E., b. Sept. 19, 1815; d. Dec. 10, 1898; m. Dec. 1842, 

Adelaide Clark. 

3. Olive Jane, b. Oct. 28, 1817, at Northampton, N. Y. ; d. in 

Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 24, 1865. She married Nov. 15, 1839, 
Horace R. Fletcher, b. 1814, Alstead, N. H. He was a builder 
at Rochester, N. Y., and afterwards a grocer at Brooklyn, 
N. Y. Children: 
a. Frank Elliott, 1>. Apr. 17, 1841. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 87 

b. George Horace, b. Apr. 21, 1845 ; d. 1879. 

c. Luella, b. Mar. 25, 1847; m. in 1868 Jerome L Bigelow of 

Brooklyn, N. Y. Children : Josephine H., George Fletcher, 
Florence Jerome, Lelia Elliott. 

d. Florence G., b. 1855 ; m. 1879 Fred W. Jackson of Brooklyn, 

N. Y. Children: George F, Frank F. 

e. Minnie, b. 1859; d. i860. 

4. John Philo, b. Aug. 10, 1820; d. in 1889; cooper; settled in 

Paw Paw, Mich., in 1846; m. Adelia Thompson; d. May 19, 
1849. 

5. Mary Samantha, b. July 25, 1826; d. Aug. 11, 1848; m. Oct. 

18, 1847, Charles Ingersoll of Niles, Mich. 

6. George A., b. Sept. 13, 1830; d. Nov. 19, 1897. 

-f 124. v. John Aaron 6 , b. Oct. 16, 1788; d. Dec. 17, 1864. 
125. vi. Mary (Polly) Ely 6 , b. at Sharon Apr. 13, 1791 ; d. 
at Goshen, O., Dec. 1827. She married about 
1814, Festus Dunning- of Goshen, N. Y., and after- 
wards of Goshen, O. He was a member of the 
Legislature. 

CHILDREN. 

i. William, b. Jan. 7, 1815; d. Nov. 19, 1843. He was a wagon 
maker in Goshen, O. ; m. Matilda McNeall, and left children : 

a. George Stephen, b. 1839; m. and d. 

b. Amelia Jane, b. 1841 ; m. Wm. H. Myers. Children: Frank, 

Ada, Forest Marion. 

c. Edward Eliot, b. 1843. 

2. Frances Louisa, b. Jan. 22, 1817. She m. John Smith of 
Goshen, O. Children : 

a. Mary Jane, b. June 20, 1835 ; m. Jackson Long. Children : 

Frank, m. Georgia Simpkins, and had children : Dolly, and 
son. Flora, who m. August Ellbreeder, and had child : 
Daisy. 

b. Albert, b. Oct. 19, 1837; m. Lydia Wainwright. Children: 

Fanny, m. John Mizelle. J. Edwin, m. Edna Edgington. 
(Children : Clyde Bernice, Charles Bertram.) Mary Alberta, 
m. Charles Rybolt. Laura, m. D. L. Runyan. (Children: 
Bertha Lydia Smith, Frances Elizabeth Smith, Daniel 
Albert Smith, Charles L., who m. Elizabeth Simkins, and 
had child Laura.) 

c. Ann Eliza, b. Aug. 14, 1842; m. Bart. Skinner. Children: 

Abby, Daisy May, d., Raymond, d. 

d. Austin E., b. Feb. 12, 1840; m. Lizzie Clark. Children: 

W. Austin, Lyman, d. 

e. Caroline, b. Oct. 9, 1844; d. 

f. John Lyman, b. Jan. 19, 1847 ; m. Annie Cazzade. Child : 

Hermon. 
6 



88 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

3. Lewis, b. May 5, 1820; wagon maker in Farmington, Iowa. 

4. Mary Jane, b. June II, 1821 ; m. Jonas Houghton of Mass.; 

merchant in Iowa. Children: 

a. William Albin. 

b. Lyman. 

c. Oliver, b. 1845. 

d. unnamed child. 

e. Albert and Albin (twins). Albert d. 1850. 

5. Ann Eliza, b. Apr. 11, 1823; m. Henry Benson, tailor, Goshen, 

O. Children : 

a. Mary Caroline. 

b. William. 

c. Charlotte, d. 

d. Henry, d. 

6. Asa, b. Aug. 1, 1825 ; d. Mar. 24, 1853 ; wagon maker with his 

father. 

-}- 126. vii. Joseph Benjamin 6 , b. July 23, 1794; d. Dec. 20, 
1820, in New York. 
127. viii. Elizabeth 6 (Betsey), b. at Sharon, July 22, 1799; 
d. about 1866. She married May 22, 1838, Rev. 
Noah Cook of Bertrand, Mich. He was after- 
wards a missionary at Mineral Point, Wis. On the 
failure of his voice he went into the practice of 
medicine in Woodville, 111. No children. 

CHILDREN OF SAMUEL SMITHSON, BY SECOND WIFE. 

-\- 128. ix. Isaac 6 , b. July 9, 1806; d. Feb. 2, 1881. 

129. x. Sarah 6 , b. in Sharon, Apr. 14, 1808; d. 1822. 



51. WILLIAM 5 (Aaron 4 , Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). A.B. Yale 
Coll. 1774; studied medicine with Dr. Benjamin Gale, and was 
a physician and druggist. He removed in 1801 from Killing- 
worth to Goshen, Orange Co., N. Y. He married Ethelinda, 
dau. of Doct. and Col. John and Sarah (dau. of Rev. William 
Worthington of Saybrook) Ely. She d. Aug. 14, 1829, aged 65. 

CHILDREN. 

-f- 130. i. Horace William 6 , b. in 1788; d. Sept. 21, 1863. 
131. ii. Sarah (Sally) Ethelinda 6 , b. 1790; d. 1820. She 
married in 1817 Rev. Benjamin Gildersleeve, Mil- 
ledgeville, Ga. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 89 

CHILD. 
I. William Eliot, d. at Goshen, N. Y., aged 4. 

132. iii. Charlotte 6 , b. 1792; d. 1820, at Milledgeville, Ga. 

133. iv. Elizabeth 6 (Betsey), b. 1794; married in 1826, 

Zechariah N. Hoffman, judge, postmaster, etc., 
Redbrook, Dutchess Co., N. Y. 

CHILDREN. 

I. Mary Ethelinda, b. 1828 (prob. Mrs. Milton Woolcott). 
2 William Henry, b. 1830; d. 1849, by accidental discharge of a 
gun in his own hands. 

3. Eda Elizabeth, b. 1834 (prob. Mrs. John Osbrey). 

4. One child died in infancy. 

+ 134. v. Henry William 6 , b. Aug. 14, 1797; d. Dec. 7, 1871. 
135. vi. Frances Maria 6 , b. 1798; d. June 6, 1880; buried at 
Greenwood Cemetery. She married Doct. Hudson 
Kinsley, b. 1769, in Torringford, Conn. 



52. AARON 5 (Aaron*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Physician, 
settled at St. Genevieve, Mo., before 1810. He married Jan. 15, 
1782, Gloriana Austin, sister of Moses Austin, founder of Texas. 
She was born Dec. 18, 1758; d. Sept. 9, 181 1. 

CHILDREN. 

+ 136. i. Henry 6 , b. Oct. 5, 1782 ; d. before 1826, in Mo. 

137. ii. Ellas Austin 6 , b. Apr. 12, 1784; d. Aug. 25, 1822, in 

St. Genevieve, Mo. He was a lieutenant in a troop 
of horse, and was frequently out in repelling the 
incursions of the Indians. 

138. iii. Charles 6 , b. Dec. 15, 1786; d. Feb. 12, 1811, in St. G. 

139. iv. Ann Maria 6 , b. Aug. 31, 1788; d. Aug. 11, 1826. 
She was amiable and lovely in disposition, a devoted and 

faithful wife, mother, and friend, conducting a large household 
with gentleness and care. She married, Nov. 17, 1807, Judge 
William Chiles Carr of St. Louis, Mo. He was an educated and 
refined man, especially fond of flowers. He had a beautiful 
place, "Hazlewood," now the Protestant Hospital of St. Louis. 
Many of his flowers and plants were used in starting Shaw's 



90 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Garden, now a show place in St. Louis. He gave a park to the 
city, and was known as a public-spirited citizen. 

CHILDREN. 

1. William Henry, b. Oct. 23, 1809; d. Oct. 11, 1821. 

2. Ann Maria, b. Mar. 19, 1812; d. May 27, 1875. She married, 

first, at St. Louis, George Washington Kerr; second, Ralph 
Peters, son of Judge Richard Peters of Philadelphia. Children 
by first husband (Kerr) : 

a. Isabel Rippey, b. in St. Louis, Feb. 28, 1836; m. Wm. Austin 

Clendennin of Louisville, Ky. Children : Washington Kerr, 
Ellen (m. H. B. Miltenberger), Anne Eliot, Mildred, Eliza. 

b. George Washington, b. Apr. 9, 1838; m. Annie Ewing 

Mitchell. Child by second husband (Peters) : 

c. Kathcrine , d. in infancy. 

3. Charles Eliot, b. June 28, 1814, at St. Louis, Mo.; d. Sept. 

22, 1826. 

4. Virginia Eliot, b. Dec. 8, 1816, at St. Louis, Mo. ; d. Mar. 1899. 

She married in 1S34 at St. Louis, Mo., John Charles Cabanne, 
b. in St. Louis in 1807. Children : 

a. Joseph Charlcss, b. Oct. 17, 1846; m. Apr. 23, 1868, Susan 

Preston Christy Mitchell. Children: John Pierre, Vir- 
ginia Eliot (m. E. W. Little), Martha Mitchell (m. Robert 
Lee Kayser), Susan Mitchell (m. J. Sheppard Smith), 
Mary Mitchell, Fannie Mitchell (m. A. L. Pearson, Jr.). 
Arthur Lee. 

b. Sarpy Carr, b. Dec. 1848; m. Apr. 1869, Julia Goode. Chil- 

dren: Lucian Duteil, Frances Goode (m. Sylvester Scovel), 
Charles Gratiot, Julia Goode, J. Goode, Virginia Eliot, 
William Christy, Sarpy Carr, Emily Maffit. 

5. Cornelia Chiles, b. July 15, 1819; d. Nov. 6, 1898, St. Louis. 

She married June 26, 1844, at St. Louis, Mo., Thomas Bickley 
Dyer, b. Albemarle Co., Va., May 3, 1814; d. Aug. 23, 1897. 
Children : 

a. William Carr, b. June .22, 1845, in St. Louis; m. Emma Willis 

Rankin. Children: Jane Rankin, John Rankin, Thomas 
Eliot, William Cornelius, Charles Austin, Cornelia Carr. 

b. Samuel, b. Apr. 7, 1848, in St. Louis; d. 

c. Nancy Eliot, b. Apr. 27, 1851 ; d. 

d. Cornelian Trevilian, b. Nov. 5, 1853, in St. Louis. 

e. Charles Austin, b. Nov. 29, 1855 ; m. Alice Maude Simmons. 

Children: Marguerite Simmons, Charles Austin, Beverly 
Carr, Alice Maud. 

f. Thomas Bickley, b. Apr. 1, 1858, in St. Louis; m. Elizabeth 

Lawson. Children: Trl Bickley, Feo, Virginia Carr. 

g. Beverly Allen, b. June 15, i860; m. Cclia Bickley Mason. 

Judge Carr married for his second wife, Dec. 10, 1829, Dorcas 
Bent, by whom he had six children. He d. Mar. 31, 1851. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 9 1 

54. BENJAMIN 5 (Aaron*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Physician, 
first settled in Ulster Co., N. Y., then near Richmond, Va., and 
d. at Little Rock, Ark. He married Frances Panca (or Panky), 
b. near Richmond, Va., d. at Little Rock. 

CHILDREN. 

140. i. Mary Worthington Watkins 6 , b. Mar. 1798; d. 
May 25, 1865. 
She married at St. Genevieve, Mo., July 4, 182 1, Hon. Chester 
Ashley, b. June 1, 1791, at Amherst, Mass. ; d. Apr. 29, 1848, in 
Washington, D. C. He lived as a boy at Hudson, N. Y., gradu- 
ated at Williams College in 1813, studied law and was admitted 
to the bar in Hudson. When he was twenty-seven he went 
West, and in 1820 settled in Little Rock, Ark. He was a 
very able lawyer and later formed a partnership with Robert 
Crittenden. Mr. Ashley was the acknowledged head of the bar 
in that state as long as he remained in practice. He was United 
States Senator from 1845 un til the time of his death. 

CHILDREN. 

1. William Eliot, b. Aug. 6, 1823, at Little Rock, Ark.; d. Aug. 

12, 1868; m. Oct. 26, 1846, Frances E. Grafton of St. Genevieve, 
Mo., b. Feb. 5, 1828; d. July 24, 1898 (see 165 ii 2). Children: 

a. Chester Grafton, b. Aug. 15, 1847. 

b. Francis Freeman, b. May 29, 1853. 

c. Frances Ann, (d) Harriet E., died, (e) Wm E., died 

(triplets). Frances Ann m. first, Dr. Clifton Sidney Gray 
of Little Rock, Ark., Mar. 4, 1886; m. second, Col. B. S. 
. Johnson of Little Rock, Ark. Mrs. Johnson is a Colonial 
Dame of Arkansas. 

2. Frances Ann, b. Jan. 3, 1825; d. 1852. She m. 1851 Rev. 

Andrew Freeman of Little Rock, Ark. Child : 
a. Mary Ashley, m. 1872 Sterling Robertson Cockrill of Little 
Rock, Ark. Children: Ashley, Annie, Sterling Robertson, 
Mary, Emmet, Garland, Freeman. 

3. Mary Van Alstyne, b. Oct. 13, 1826. 

4. Chester Pomeroy, b. June 26, 1828. 

5. Henry Charles, b. Mar. 1831. 

6. Mary Van Alstyne, b. Feb. 20, 1833. 

141. ii. Eliza 6 , married Henderson. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Margaret F. 
2. Catharine E. 



92 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

142. Laura 6 , b. Dec. 12, 1813; d. Nov. 9, 1899; married Aug. 

2, 1 83 1, Edward Cross of Welsh descent, a lawyer 
whose history was intimately interwoven with territorial 
and early Arkansas days. He was Colonel of Militia, 
Surveyor General of Public Lands, sole Representative 
to the United States Congress for Arkansas in 1836; 
later special Judge of the Supreme Court. During the 
Civil War he was Confederate Depository for Trans- 
Mississippi Funds. He died in 1886. Eight children 
were born to them, of whom only two reached maturity. 

1. Mary Frances, b. Mar. 12, 1835; d. Mar. 5, 1884; m. Nov. io, 

1859, James Lafayette Witherspoon, lawyer, a lineal descendant 
of John Knox. He died June 9, 1890. Children: a. Laura 
Ann; b. James Pinckney; c. Edzvard Cross; d. Kate Frances; 
e. Margaret Welch; f. John, All of these are dead but John 
of Fort Smith, Ark., who was b. Mar. 27, 1868; m. Laura 
Davis, Mar. 30, 1898. Daughter, Sara Cross, b. Jan. 22, 1899. 

2. Edward, b. Nov. 1837; m. Kate Cloud of Paris, Texas; is a 

physician in San Antonio, Texas ; has four living children : 
a. Edward William; b. James Lafayette; c. Benjamin Elliott, 
and d. Theodore Hartman. 

3. Nancy, d. aged 15. 

4. Benjamin. 

5. Frank, and others. 

143. iv. Charles Watkins 6 , d. in Missouri, Feb. 7, 1846. 



56. AUGUSTUS 5 (Joseph*-, J ared*, Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer in 
Killingworth. He married Nov. IO, 1771, Mary Lewis. 

CHILD. 

144. i. Joseph 6 , b. Aug. 22, 1772 ; d. in infancy. 



63. JOHN 5 (Nathan 4 , Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer in 
Linleytown, Steuben Co., N. Y., and in Lawrence, Tioga Co., 
Pa. He came to the latter place in 181 1 and owned what is the 
central portion of the present village. In 1816 he exchanged 
this property for a tract of 193 acres of land near what is now 
known as Rising Station on the N. Y. C. R. R. He was a leader 
and steward in the M. E. Church. He married, Aug. 7, 1799, 
Parena Walter, dau. of Peter Walter, of Kent, b. Mar. 11, 1777 ; 
d. Aug. 29, 1870. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 93 

CHILDREN. 

145. i. William Hillhouse 6 , b. at Linleytown, Dec. 3, 1803 ; 

d. Dec. 9, 1874. 
He was sent to Connecticut for his schooling; entered into 
business with his uncle, Augustus G. Eliot, by whom he was 
adopted as a son, and afterwards continued in business in Frank- 
linville, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., where he studied law, and was 
justice of the peace. 

146. ii. Augustus J. 6 , b. Jan. 17, 1808, at Linleytown; d. 

Mar. 1, 1849. He was an active business man. 

147. iii. Julia Peninah 6 , b. July 27, 1810, at Linleytown ; d. 

July 27, 1878. 
She was an eccentric woman and lived a life of single blessed- 
ness. During the latter part of her life she was a recluse and 
died at an advanced age, possessed of a fine property. She was 
noted for her good looks and good business qualities, and was 
respected by her neighbors, who knew little of her socially. 
She is buried in the Lawrenceville Cemetery, by the side of her 
parents. 

+ 148. iv. Homer 6 , b. Aug. 30, 1813 ; d. Dec. 19, 1894. 
149. v. Nathan 6 , b. Mar. 1, 1819; d. Mar. 17, 1819. 

+ 150. vi. John 6 , b. May 27, 1820; d. July 11, 1898. 



64. MATTHEW 5 (Nathan 4 , Jaretf, Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer in 
Kent. He married, March 1, 1804, Mary Ann, dau. of 
Nathaniel Farrand of Washington, b. May 23, 1780; d. Nov. 
10, i860. 

CHILDREN. 

+ 151. i. William Farrand 6 , b. Dec. 10, 1804; d. Aug. 1, 1881. 
+ 152. ii. Matthew Griswold 6 , b. Nov. 16, 1805; d. Apr. 17, 
1892. 
153. iii. Mary Ann 6 , b. Jan. 16, 1807 ; d. Aug. 25, 1896. 

She married, Aug. 6, 183 1, Hon. Hiram Howard Barney of 
Cincinnati. He was State Commissioner of Schools of Ohio, 
and a man of prominence in educational matters. He d. July 
28, 1879. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Mary Louisa, b. Dec. 1, 1832; m. Dec. 26, 1856, William D. 
Yocous of Brooklyn. He d. Jan. 5, 1895. Mrs. Yocous lives 
(1904) in Brooklyn. 



94 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

2. Roderick Douglas, b. Nov. 6, 1835. He is President of the 

Robert Clarke Publishing Co. of Cincinnati, O., is a mem- 
ber of the Ohio Branch of the Society of Colonial Wars, 
and a man of weight and influence. He lives (1904) at 
Wyoming, O. He m. Aug. 17, 1875, Clara A. Yates of 
Newark, N. J. Children: 

a. Clara Louise, b. Feb. 7, 1878. 

b. Ethel IVyllys, b. Apr. 20, 1884. 

3. Howard, b. Sept. 10, 1840. He is Secretary of the Robert 

Clarke Publishing Co. of Cincinnati, and a member of the 
Ohio Branch of the Society of Colonial Wars. He lives 
(1904) in Cincinnati. He married Oct. 18, 1881, Sarah Ann, 
dau. of Hon. H. J. Yates of Newark, N. J. Children: 

a. John Eliot, b. Aug. 21, 1883, student (1904) at Yale. 

b. Mildred Griswold, b. Mar. 7, 1886. 

c. Sarah Adele, b. Jan. 17, 1888. 

154. iv. Nathan Augustus 6 , b. July 11, 1810; d. Mar. 13, 

i837- 

155. v. Clarina 6 , b. Sept. 12, 1813; d. Oct. 4, 1863, at Wood- 

bury, Conn. 

156. vi. Rebecca 6 , b. Jan. 17, 1815 ; d. Jan. 4, 1875. 

She married Apr. 18, 1847, Erasmus D. Kinsley of Marietta, 
O. He was largely interested in educational matters and 
was superintendent of schools. He is now (1904) living in 
Columbus, O. 

CHILD. 

1. Mary Louisa, b. Mar. 16, 1850; d. Nov. 28, 1863. 



67. NATHAN 5 (Nathan', Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Graduated 
at Yale Coll. 1789. He was editor of "The American Eagle," 
a newspaper published in Catskill, N. Y., and was also a book- 
seller and publisher of that place, where he is buried. He mar- 
ried Mary Murdock of Lyme. She was b. Mar. 22, 1771 ; d. 
June 28, 1850. 

CHILDREN. 

-j- 157. i. James Guernsey 6 , b. 1804; d. in New York, Feb. 13, 
1862. 

158. ii. Nathan G. 6 , b. about 1806. Shipwrecked in the Gulf 

of Mexico on his way to Galveston, Aug. 7, 1837. 

159. iii. John Matthew 6 , d. May 8, 180S. 



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DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 95 

70. RICHARD JACKSON 5 (Nathan*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). 
Farmer and merchant at Boardman, Trumbull Co., O., whither 
he removed from Kent, Conn., in 1805. He was a man of worth 
and consequence, a member of the Ohio Legislature in 1808-9. 
At his last election he received every vote cast in his district, an 
honor probably never accorded to any other candidate before or 
since. His epitaph in the cemetery at Boardman, O., is as 
follows : 

"Maj. Rich d Jackson Eliot 
Born at Kent Conn. 
Died Feb. 12. 1814. 
Aged 42 years. 
The tender husband, 
Affectionate parent, 
And friendly companion 
were eminently displayed." 

He married, 1793, Joanna, only child of Samuel Hill of Kent. 
She afterwards married Jared Kirtland of Poland, O., and died 
Oct. 5, 1852. 

CHILDREN. 

+ 160. i. Daniel 6 , b. Oct. 14, 1795 ; d. Sept. 2, 1832. 
+ 161. ii. Horace 6 , b. June 11, 1802; d. Sept. 10, 1841. 

162. iii. Samuel 6 , b. Aug. 27, 1805 ; d. ( ?) 
+ 163. iv. Richard Jackson, Jr. 6 , b. Oct. 29, 1813 ; d. Mar. 18, 
1851. 



72. JARED 5 (Jared*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer in Kil- 
lingworth, Justice of the Peace and member of the General 
Assembly. He married, Jan. 30, 1785, Clarissa, dau. of John 
Lewis of Killingworth, b. 1773 ; d. June 4, 1842, aged 79 years. 

CHILDREN. 

164. i. Amelia Zipporah 6 , b. 1790; d. Sept. 14, 1846. 

165. ii. Mary Lewis 6 , b. Jan. 18, 1792 ; d. Nov. 14, 1838. 

She married first, Jan. 31, 1813, Henry Eliot (136) of St. 
Genevieve, Mo., and second, Gen. Joseph D. Grafton of Little 
Rock, Ark., from Newton, Mass. He was a prominent lawyer 



96 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

and remarkably handsome. He was urged to go to the United 
States Senate on the Democratic ticket, but declined, being a 
Whig. (Children by first husband under 136.) 

CHILDREN, BY SECOND HUSBAND. 

i. Harriet, b. at St. Genevieve, Mo., 1826, a woman of superb 

mind and character; m. at Little Rock, Ark., to Richard 

Fatherly. Children : 

a. William Ashley, b. 1850; d. 1887; m. at Little Rock, Addie 

Ward. Children: Worthen Eliot; Ward, b. July 29, 1881. 

2. Frances Eliot (or Eliza), b. Feb. 5, 1828; m. Wm. Eliot Ashley 

(see 140 i 1). She was one of the most beautiful women of 
her day, with an intellect equal to her beauty, noted for her 
grace of heart and manner and well-balanced Christian 
character. 

3. Joseph Dana, b. 1830, at St. Genevieve, Mo. He was in the U. S. 

Navy (then the Confederate Navy), and was later a surgeon. 
He was drowned off the coast of Brazil, after heroically saving 
a sailor. In the July Century 1898, is an account of the Florida 
and a Mr. Sinclair. The article contains a mention of the 
death of Dr. Grafton, and states that a peculiar coincidence 
was the fact that Dr. Grafton and Mr. Sinclair lost their 
lives in the same way, rescuing the same man. Dr. Grafton 
was witty and highly cultivated with the Eliot talent for 
languages, this linguistic talent being very marked. 

166. iii. Caroline Elizabeth 6 , b. in Killingworth, Mar. 17, 
1796; d. Mar. 29, 1866. She married Mar. 29, 
1825, John Stanton of Killingworth (Clinton), b. 
Apr. 5, 1783. 

CHILDREN. 

1. John Adam, b. June 28, 1826, at Killingworth (Clinton), Conn. 
Formerly merchant, now retired; is a collector of antiquities. 
A picture of his rare old house adorns this book. 

The Stanton House, Clinton, Conn. 

At the venerable homestead of John A. Stanton and Lewis Eliot 
Stanton, in the center of Clinton, Conn., and completed by their grand- 
father in 1791, may be found a large collection of antique furniture, 
pottery, porcelains and other works of art, illustrating early New 
England life. 

The Court Cupboard here shown is entirely of oak, no metals used 
in construction, everything pinned with wooden pegs, all work hand- 
made, and carved from riven timber, before the day of saw mills, the 
workmanship fine, and the cupboard probably made about 1670. 

The Corner China Closet was built into the mansion in 1791, and 
with the variety of wares exposed, presents an attractive feature. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 97 

This house stands upon the former home lot of Rev. Abraham Pierson, 
the second pastor of the church in Killingworth, Conn., now Clinton. 
He was the first Rector of "ye College in Connecticut." In his house 
at this place, the earliest senior classes of the college, afterwards named 
Yale College, were instructed by him from 1701 to 1707. Adam Stanton 
bought the property in 1701, while the rector's house was still standing, 
and took it down and placed part of the great oak timbers, a foot 
square, in the foundation of the chimney of his new house. They are 
there to-day, with solid mouldings worked upon the corners, odd 
mortices, bored pinholes and framing marks, the timbers nearly black 
with age, but still in fairly good condition. In the year 1868 a monu- 
ment to mark this location was erected near it, by the college authorities, 
and completed by the late Gen. Wm. S. Pierson of Windsor, Conn. 

2. Elizabeth Mary, b. July 23, 1829; d. May 4, 1868. 

3. Lewis Eliot, b. July 19, 1833. Fitted for college at Bacon 

Academy, Colchester, Conn., 1849, 1850 and 1851. Entered Yale 
Coll. July, 1851, and graduated in 1855. Taught school as 
Principal of Shaw Academy, East Cleveland, O., and Select 
School for Boys, Cleveland, O., 1855 and 1856. Admitted to 
the Bar in New Haven in April, 1859. Practiced law in 
Norwich, Conn., i860 to 1865. Removed to Hartford, Conn., 
Sept. 1865. Formed partnership of Day & Stanton (John 
C. Day, Yale 1857), which continued six years. While in 
Norwich, was Assistant Clerk of Superior Court of New 
London County, and Recorder (Judge City Court) of the 
City of Norwich. Since 1871 has practiced law alone. In 1870 
was appointed assistant to U. S. Attorney for Dist. of Conn. 
In 1885 was promoted to office of U. S. District Attorney 
for the District of Connecticut; held office three years, serv- 
ing under Presidents Arthur and Cleveland, resigned in April, 
1888. Representative from town of Hartford in the General 
Assembly of Connecticut, and House Chairman of Committee 
on Judiciary, from January to July, 1880. Published an 
"Account of the Dedication of Morgan School at Clinton, 
Conn., 1871." His name appears in State and Federal Law 
Reports for about thirty years. 



75. RICHARD 5 (Jared*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Merchant in 
Washington, D. C. He married, Feb. 2, 1804, Agnes Gregory 
of Philadelphia. She d. July 7, 1850. 



CHILDREN. 



167. i. Jared Lay 6 , b. June 24, 1805, at Washington, D. C. 
d. Apr. 16, 1881. 



9& DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

His boyhood and early youth were spent on the sea. He 
studied at the Academy at Princeton, then under Dr. Bacon. 
United with the First Presbyterian Church Dec. 16, 1828. 
Graduated at Princeton (Coll. of N. J.) 183 1, and at Auburn 
Theological Seminary in 1833. Was at Princeton Theological 
Seminary 1833-4. Licensed by N. J. Presbytery in 1834, 
and ordained in 1835. He was at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 
1834-5; Mariner's Church, Philadelphia, in 1835-6; stated 
supply First and Second churches in Washington, and also 
Frederick City, Md., 1836-39; chaplain U. S. Navy, 1838-42, 
and U. S. Army, 1844-49; acting master U. S. Navy, 1849-61 ; 
chaplain U. S. A., 1861-81. During his career in the navy he 
made long sea voyages. He established a scholarship in Prince- 
ton Theological Seminary in 1871. A man of generous 
impulses, a faithful follower and servant of Jesus Christ. He 
is buried in the old cemetery (Presbyterian), 33d and Q streets, 
Georgetown, near his sisters. 

168. ii. Maria Josepha 6 , b. June 24, 1805 ; d. Mar. 28, 1880. 

169. iii. Elizabeth 6 , b. 1807; d. Feb. 17, 1816. 

170. iv. Richard 6 , b. 1810; d. Jan. 14, 181 1. 

+ 171. v. Edward Gregory 6 , b. Mar. 1, 1812; d. at Cruses, New 
Granada, Jan. 5, 1849. 
172. vi. Florida E., b. 1814 ; d. June 22, 1879. 



7&. LYNDE 5 (Jared\ Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Merchant in 
Georgetown, D. C. He married, May 7, 1807. Statira, dau. of 
Timothy Gates of East Haddam, b. Dec. 28, 1764; d. Aug. 10, 
1831. 

CHILD. 

173. i. Emma 6 , b. Feb. 24, 1809, at East Haddam. Conn; d. 
Dec. 20, 1853, at Higganum, Conn. She married 
Apr. 14. 1835, John May of Haddam, b. Aug. 8, 
1792; d. Aug. 27, 1859. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Lynde Eliot, b. Jan. 31, 1836; d. Sept. 13, 1859, at Worthington, 

Iowa. 
2. Elizabeth, 1). June 9, 1837; d. June II, 1864; was a teacher. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 99 

3. Henry Edwin, b. Feb. 17, 1839, in Higganum, Conn.; m. Sept. 

3, i860, Sophia A. Brainard. Children: 

a. Dorothy Catharine, b. Jan. 22, 1861 ; m. Winfield Scott 

Hotchkiss of Yalesville, Conn. Children: Agnes May, 
Dwight Edwin, Roy Francis, Emily Sophia. 

b. Edzvin Selden, b. Nov. 26, 1865; m. Hattie Tarbell of 

Meriden, Conn. Children : Ethel Durrie, Eliot John, Ruth 
Hubbard, Dorothy Emma, Lynde Henry. 

c. Lynde Eliot, b. Apr. 23, 1870; m. Annie Florence Pimm of 

Newington, Conn. Child: Edwin Hyland. 

d. Henry Alexander, b. June 17, 1876; m. Jennie May Hartman 

of Middletown, Conn. Child: Charles Huntington. 

4. Statira Emma, b. Dec. 29, 1840, at Higganum, Conn. ; m. Nov. 

6, 1861, David Huntington, who d. Dec. 8, 1894. The ancestors 
of the Mays and Huntingtons were under John Eliot's ministry 
at Roxbury. The Mays came over in 1640, the Huntingtons 
in 1633. 

5. Richard Edwards, b. Mar. 28, 1843, at Higganum, Conn. ; 

m. Apr. 5, 1866, Viola E. Bailey. Child: 
a. Eva Leora, m. Earle Myron Pease of Richland Center, Wis. 
He was in the Civil War in Co. D, 20th Reg. Conn. Vol., 
and was with Sherman in his March to the Sea. 

6. Sarah Boardman, b. Mar. 18, 1845 ; d. Mar. 21, 1853. 

7. John, b. Oct. 10, 1846; d. May 12, 1888; m. Apr. 8, 1868, at 

Killingworth, Conn., Fannie O. Stevens. Children : 

a. Flora Emma, b. Nov. 29, 1870; m. John C. Conely of 

Wichita, Kan. Child : Elliott Raymond. 

b. Fannie Elisabeth, b. Feb. 2, 1875 ; m. Frank Jewett Emmons 

of Higganum, Conn. 

8. Dorothy Catherine, b. Feb. 26, 1849; d. July 3, 1853. 



79. RUFUS 5 (Jared 4 , Jared\ Joseph 2 , John 1 ), of Washington, 
D. C. He married in 1807, Elizabeth Miller of Nixonton, N. C, 
b. June 24, 1788 ; d. July 27, 1871. 

CHILDREN. 

+ 174. i. Lynde 6 , b. at Norfolk, Va., May 14, 1808; d. at 
Washington, D. C, Oct. 3, 1856. 
175. ii. Mary Anne 6 , b. July 3, 1810; d. Mar. 31, 1853. She 
married Jan. 12, 1836, John C. Rives, b. in Franklin 
Co., Va., May, 1795; d. Apr. 10, 1864. He was 
editor of the Washington Globe. 



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CHILDREN. 

i. Wright, b. Jan. 25, 1838; graduated from West Point, 1861 ; 

served in the war of the Rebellion until 1864, when he was 

relieved on account of ill-health ; is now retired. He m. 

Isabelle F. Maury, Oct. 6, 1864. Child: 

a. Wright, Jr., b. Sept. 22, 1873 ; d. Apr. 2, 1898. He graduated 

in medicine June 1896, at Columbian University, went to 

Garfield Hospital as resident physician 1897. His brilliant 

and useful career came to a sad close, by his death one 

year later. 

2. Caroline, b. June 2, 1840 ; d. Oct. 28, 1889. 

3. Franklin, b. Jan. 17, 1842; m. July 21, 1864, Jeannie M. Tree. 

Children : 

a. John C. (3d), b. May 28, 1865. 

b. Frank Blair, b. Dec. 11, 1866; m. Delia King of St. Johns- 

bury, Vt. 

c. Isabel, b. Dec. 16, 1868. 

d. Ellen Tree, b. July 13, 1870; m. Percival L. Waters of 

Washington, D. C. Child : Percival L., Jr. 

4. Lucy, b. June 7, 1845 ; d. Nov. 22, 1882. 

5. Jefferson, b. July 4, 1847; m - Aug. 24, 1871, Clara Vickers of 

Chestertown, Md. He d. Dec. 20, 1874. 

6. John Cook, b. Nov. 16, 1848 ; d. June 5, 1885. 

7. Blair, b. Dec. 19, 1849; d. Apr. 3, 1869. 

176. iii. Caroline 6 , b. Feb. 26, 1815 ; d. Aug. 5, 1895, in 

Washington. She married, Aug. 15, 1848, William 
Flinn of Pittsburgh, Pa., clerk in Washington, D. C. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Mary Ann, b. Mar. 15, 1849; m. Dec. 19, 1894, Edward F. Fane 

of New York City. 

2. Sarah Emily, b. June 28, 1851 ; d.. Feb. 25, 1885. She m. Oct. 

28, 1878, John F. Ancona, of Reading, Pa. Children: 

a. John F. 

b. Carrie, m. Jas. A. Robertson. 

c. Mary A. 

177. iv. Harriet 6 , b. Feb. 4, 1817 ; d. Mar. 1, 1892. She mar- 

ried, Aug. 11, 1840, Josiah Goodrich of Pittsfield, 
Mass., b. May 8, 1805 ; d. Jan. 24, 1874. He was 
a clerk at Washington, D. C. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Mary Lay, b. June 23, 1841 ; ra. July 24, 1862. Dr. William M. 
Mew, b. in Isle of Wight. England; d. Sept. 19, 1902, at 
Washington, D. C. He came to this country in 1858, living 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. IOI 

in Warren, Pa., until the breaking out of the Civil War, 
when he enlisted a company, being appointed Captain in 
August 1861. Owing to exposure on the Peninsula in the 
spring of 1862, his health was so impaired that he was on 
account of this honorably discharged from the Army; he 
filled several positions under the Government, doing signal 
service as Chemist in the Army Medical Museum, holding 
this office up to the time of his death, a period of nearly 
thirty years. He also practiced medical electricity with great 
success in his private capacity as a physician. Child: 
a. Emily Goodrich, b. May 6, 1863. 

2. Elizabeth Eliot, b. Sept. 26, 1843; d. July 14, 1880, at Wilming- 

ton, Del. She married Jan. 22, 1879, Thomas K. Porter of 
Wilmington. Child: a dau., b. and d. July 10, 1880. 

3. Josepha Franklin, b. Mar. 28, 1845, at Washington, D. C. ; 

d. Sept. 1, 1871, at Wilmington, Del. She m. Feb. 14, 1865, 
Rev. George H. Smyth of New York. Children: 

a. Alexander Goodrich, b. Dec. 8, 1867, died. 

b. Elisabeth Eliot, 3d, b. June 22, 1869, died. 

c. Josepha Franklin, b. Aug. 31, 1871 ; lives at E. Orange, N. J. 

4. John C. Rives, b. July 13, 1847; d. June 16, 1848. 

5. John Howard, b. July 19, 1849. Bank clerk in Washington, 

D. C. 

6. Edward Payson, b. Sept. 10, 1851; m. Oct. 7, 1879, Lizzie 

Maury Warnall. Child: 
a. Charles Edward, b. Dec. 26, 1880. Graduate of Cornell 1904. 

178. v. William Rufus 6 , b. 1824. 

No account has been obtainable of this line, though repeated 
attempts have been made through letters. He is said to live in 
Idaho. 



82. AUGUSTUS 5 {Jared\ Jared\ Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer in 
Killingworth. He married, Dec. 26, 1809, Mary Deborah, dau. 
of Abner Kirtland of Saybrook, b. July 21, 1789. 

CHILDREN. 

179. i. Gustavus John 6 , b. Nov. 6, 1810 ; d. May 6, 1846. He 

was a merchant in Saybrook, afterwards removed to 
Mississippi, where he died. 

180. ii. Susan Ann 6 , b. at Clinton, Conn., Nov. 18, 1812; d. 

at Meriden, Conn., June 1, 1875. She married, Sept. 
18, 1831, Hiram Bradley of Meriden, Conn., b. Apr. 
11, 181 1 ; d. Aug. 17, 1873. 



102 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Augustus Eliot, b. Jan. 19, 1834; d. July 2, 1837. 

2. Augustus Eliot, b. Jan. 7, 1841, at Meriden, Conn. He went 

to the front during the Civil War as clerk to Col. Dexter 
Wright, 15th Conn., but only stayed a few months on account 
of illness. He moved to San Francisco in 1890; m. Nov. 19, 
1867, Alice Eliza Bushnell of Westbrook, Conn. Child: 
a. Frank Eliot, b. Oct. 30, 1870; joined the navy in 1894, 
served in the Baltimore during the battle of Manila, 
transferred to Olympia, and came home with Dewey around 
the world as Admiral's orderly; is now (1904) on battle- 
ship Iowa. 

3. Elisha Kirtland, b. at Meriden, Conn., May 25, 1842. He lived 

at home until he was sixteen ; attended the Academy for a 
time ; worked on a farm ; as a clerk for his father, and in 
the grocery business. He was in the army during the last two 
years of the Civil War, as a cavalryman, under Wilson, Custer, 
and Sheridan. He was never sick or off duty a day, was in 
all the engagements of the regiment, including Winchester, 
Sept. 19, 1864, and Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864, the famous 
"Sheridan Raid," never received a scratch, and came home 
in perfect health. He has never used tobacco in any form, 
does not know the taste of liquor yet, and has not been sick 
a month in his life all put together. He has been in various 
kinds of business, and is at present (1904), with the Hart- 
ford Life Insurance Co. at Meriden. From 1893-98, he 
traveled on the Pacific Coast, and through the west and 
northwest. 

4. Gertrude Elizabeth, b. Aug. 11, 1847. She lives at present 

(1904) in Bridgeport, Conn. 

5. Lucy Maria, b. June 12, 1851. She lives at present (1904) in 

Meriden, Conn. 

6. Hattie Eliot, b. at Meriden, Conn., Oct. 10, 1852; d. May 1, 

1882 ; graduated with honors at State Normal School, New 
Britain, Conn. 

7. Fernando Wood, b. Nov. 3, 1854; d. July 12, 1855. 

+ 181. iii. Charles Augustus 6 , b. June 27, 1815, in Baltimore; 
d. Sept. 14, 1902, at Round Valley, Mendocino Co., 
Cal. 



84. JOHN 5 (John*, Jared*, Joseph", John 1 ). Farmer in Guil- 
ford. He married Sarah (Sally), dau. of Hooker and Ruth 
(Parmelee) Bartlett of Guilford. She was b. July 6, 1766; d. 
Sept. 6, 1838. 



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CHILDREN. 

182. i. Ruth 6 , b. at Guilford, June 7, 1791 ; d. at Cheshire, 

Conn., Feb. 27, 1861. She married Oct. 25, 1824, 

William, son of Wm. and Sarah (Hotchkiss) Law, 

b. Aug. 24, 1781 ; d. Jan. 2, 1862. 

Wm. Law was the brother of Mary Law, who married Wm. 

Horace Eliot. (See 211.) He was also the great-grandson of 

Governor Jonathan Law. (See No. 11 for Law marriages.) 

CHILDREN. 

i. Sarah, b. Oct. 13, 1825; d. Aug. 20, 1873, a t Cheshire. 

2. William, b. Feb. 11, 1828; M.D. ; lives (1904) in Washington, 

D. C, and Cheshire. 

3. John Eliot, b. Aug. 12, 1832 ; d. Sept. 16, 1885, at Cheshire. 

183. ii. Julia 6 , b: Oct. 18, 1793, in Guilford; d. July 10, 1872, 

in Cheshire, and is buried in Guilford. 



85. JOSEPH 5 (John 4 , Jared s , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Sea captain in 
Guilford. He married first, June 22, 1788, Mindwell, dau. of 
Obadiah and Mindwell (Griffing) Spencer, b. Aug. 7, 1769 ; d. 
June 12, 1794. He married second, Sept. 5, 1796, Nancy, dau. 
of Lewis and Mehitabel (Waterous) Fairchild, b. Oct. 2, 1778; 
d. Dec. 27, 1834. The following is copied from tombstones in 
West Cemetery, Guilford, probably removed from the Green : 

"Joseph Elliott, died Jan. 11, 1829. aged. 62. 
Mindwell, wife of Joseph Elliott, died June 12, 1794, aged. 25. 
Nancy, wife of Joseph Elliott, died Dec. 27. 1834, aged. 56." 

CHILDREN, BY FIRST WIFE. 

-f- 184. i. Harvey Spencer 6 , b. Feb. 27, 1789, at Guilford, Conn. ; 
d. Mar. 27, 1819, at New Albany, Ind. 

185. ii. Mortimer Smithson 6 , b. Mar. 30, 1793 ; d. May 4, 

1799. 

CHILDREN, BY SECOND WIFE. 

186. iii. Nancy 6 , b. June 8, 1797 ; d. Aug. 16, 1869. She mar- 

ried, Oct. 22, 1822, Henry, son of John and Hannah 
(Dudley) Griswold of Guilford, Conn., b. Nov. 6, 
1795 ; d. Jan. 19, 1874. 
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104 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

CHILDREN. 

i. John Eliot, b. Dec. 31, 1825; d. May 24, 1899; m. Jan. 24, 1852, 
Mary Deborah, dau. of Daniel and Laura (Frisbie) Goldsmith, 
b. June 13, 1829. Children : 

a. Henry Daniel, b. Mar. 7, 1853; m. first, Jennie L. Dudley; 

second, Caroline A. Parker. 

b. Russell Eliot, b. May 3, 1855. 

c. Lydia Goldsmith, b. Oct. 3, 1857 ; m. Robert E. Davis. 

d. Frank Russell, b. Jan. 30, i860; m. Lucy M. Woodruff. 

e. Edward Eliot, b. Feb. 27, 1862; m. first, Jennie M. Dudley; 

second, Abbie L. Leete. 

f. Jennie Frisbie, b. Mar. 7, 1864. 

g. John Lezvis, b. Jan. 23, 1866. 

h. Walter Slocum, b. June 13, 1868 ; m. Carrie Limont. 
i. Minnie May, b. Mar. 2, 1871 ; m. Newton Hine. 

2. Joseph, b. Aug. 5, 1826 ; d. July 18, 1830. 

3. Ellen, b. Apr. 5, 1831 ; d. Mar. 18, 1903. 

187. iv. Deborah 6 , b. Dec. 7, 1802; d. Jan. 18, 1841. She 
married, May 18, 1824, Sylvanus Clark of Haddam, 
afterwards of Guilford, Conn. He was b. Mar. 20, 
1800; d. Apr. 9, 1882. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Charles Goodwin, b. Apr. 27, 1826, at Guilford, Conn.; d. Mar. 
8, 1889, at Allston, Mass. 

Having gained an excellent place as school teacher, he ended a most 
successful career as Master of the Gaston School, South Boston, which 
position he held for mo're than a quarter of a century. His school- 
boy days were spent in preparing for Yale College, and for the life of 
a lawyer. He was known as a thorough, accurate scholar. Adverse 
circumstances compelled a change of plan, and without at first giving up 
hope for a college education, he began his career as a teacher in the 
central district school in North Guilford. In subsequent years he was 
at the head of schools, in Elizabethport, and Newark, N. J., and in New 
Haven, Conn. 

As a student and teacher in the Normal School of Connecticut, under 
John D. Philbrick, LL.D., he increased his equipment for a higher 
position. He was wanted as a public school teacher in Boston, where 
at first he was sub-master in the Bigelow School, and soon master, 
then he was master in the Lincoln School, and when the Gaston 
School was organized, he became its Principal. 

The memorial tributes at his funeral in Allston, Mass., where he 
resided, before "an audience of teachers and friends, such as has been 
rarely gathered hereabouts," bore abundant testimony to his superiority 
as a teacher, and his worth as a man. The Head Master of the 
Normal School characterized him as "one of God's noblemen." After 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 105 

speaking of his great efforts to magnify the office of a teacher, he 
adds, "As a result, he grew in wisdom, power, and influence, till 
the day of his death." 

The Master of the Emerson School said : "He was ambitious to make 
his own school the best possible, but he was not contented to stop 
there. All over the city, youths and maidens, men and women in 
the prime of life, fathers and mothers, rise up and call him blessed. 
They remember with grateful hearts, his kind care, his fatherly counsels, 
and his faithful teaching." 

The Master of Dwight School remarked, that when depressed, 
Clark's "lambent wit and happy humor would restore him" to his 
normal condition. And then he adds, "Endowed by nature with per- 
sonal presentability, gifted with a charming power of statement, and a 
gracious manner, what wonder that our hearts went out to him." 

Other acquaintances were not lacking in words of praise. 

He married in 1850, Rosalin Loper, dau. of James and Content (Davis) 
Loper. Children : 

a. Wilma Eliot, b. at Guilford, Oct. 4, 1851 ; d. Feb. 1, 1904; 

m. F. F. Moore, M.D 

b. Eugene Loper, b. at Guilford, July 13, 1855 ; m. Edith 

Gardner. 

c. Robert Eliot, b. at Schenectady, Mar. 12, 1859; m. Florence 

Coffin. 

d. Gertrude Rosalin, b. in Boston, Feb. 24, 1861 ; m. Orville 

Coffin. 

2. Caroline Francis, b. May 13, 1828; d. Jan. 26, 1866; m. Daniel 

C. Auger. 

3. William Henry, b. Feb. 17, 1831 ; d. Dec. 28, 1901. He was a 

farmer and stock raiser at Sheridan, Mo. He m. about 1857, 
Judith M. North. Children: 

a. Amanda Ann, b. Dec. 29, 1858, in Marshall Co., Kan. ; was m. 

b. Caroline North, b. Nov. 5, i860, in Marshall Co., Kan. ; 

was m. 

c. Syhanus Henry, b. Jan. 26, 1863, in Marshall Co., Kan. ; 

was m. 

d. Charles Elliott, b. Nov. 26, 1867, in Nodaway Co., Mo. 

e. Mary May, b. Oct. 1, 1869, in Nodaway Co., Mo. ; was m. 

f. George Erasmus, b. June 3, 1873, in Nodaway Co., Mo. 

g. Bert Opsie, b. Mar. 19, 1877, in Nodaway Co., Mo. 

h. Leonora Naomi, b. Nov. 30, 1880, in Nodaway Co., Mo. 

4. Amanda Frisbie, b. July 4, 1835, at Guilford; m. May 5, 1856, 

Harvey G. Brown; lives (1904) in New Britain, Conn. 
Children : 

a. Sara Hale, b. June 27, 1857; d. 

b. Eliot Clark, b. Mar. 17, 1S59; d. 

c. Sara Hale, b. May 26, 1861 ; m. June 15, 1886, Frank J. 

Porter. Children: Eliot Hale, b. June 22, 1887; Maxwell 
Stoddard, b. Sept. 18, 1895. 



106 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

d. Lillian Clark, b. May 24, 1869. 

e. Mary, d. in infancy. 

f. Ruth, d. in infancy. 

5. Joseph Eliot, b. Apr. 23, 1838; lost at sea, Jan. 1857. 

188. v. Harriet , b. July 10, 1806; d. Aug. 19, 1882. She 
married, Jan. 1, 1838, Davis Lee of Guilford, Conn., 
son of Joel and Mary (Davis) Lee, b. Oct. 11, 1798; 
d. Nov. 2, 1867. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Henry Eliot, b. Dec. 6, 1838; d. Oct. 3, 1902. While painting 

on the Conn. River bridge he fell from the staging and was 
drowned. He was a veteran of the Civil War, Co. E. 15th 
Conn. Vol. He m. Apr. 28, 1890, Mrs. Caroline E. (Stannard) 
Fowler. Child : 
a. Iva May, b. Aug. 1, 1891. 

2. Edwin Davis, b. July 22, 1840; d. Feb. 10, 1856. 



87, EDWARD 5 (John*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer in 
Clinton, N. Y. He married, Nov. 20, 1803, Betsey, dau. of 
Lewis and Mehitabel (Waterous) Fairchild of Guilford, Conn., 
b. June 2, 1785 ; d. July 26, 1856. 

CHILDREN. 

189. i. Eliza 6 , b. Aug. 1, 1807; d. June 3, 1866, at Clinton, 

N. Y. 

190. ii. Susan 6 , b. Sept. 17, 1812 ; d. Oct. 6, 1815. 

191. iii. Mary 6 , b. Oct. 3, 1814, at Guilford, Conn. ; d. Sept. 27, 

1874. She married, Aug. 26, 1842, Rev. George 
Nelson Todd of Marcellus, Onondaga Co., and 
Dundaff, Pa., son of Caleb Todd of Wallingford. 
He was b. Apr. 3, 1810; d. Apr. 1, 1887. 

CHILDREN. 

I Edward Elliott, b. at Phoenix, N. Y., July 14, 1844; d. July 13, 
1897. He m, July 5, 1866, Emma Faster. Children: 

a. Mary Elliott, b. Mar. 1867. 

b. George Faster, b. Dec. 8, 1868. 

c. Edzvard Herman, b. Feb. 21, 1872. 

d. Louie Augusta, b. Sept. 1874; d. in infancy. 

e. Ammi Backus, b. 1878; d. young. 

f. Albert, b. Oct. 1881. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 107 

2. Adelaide Stoyell, b. Sept. 18, 1847, at Ararat, Pa. ; m. June 21, 

1868, Morris N. Holly, b. May 7, 1842; d. June 9, 1891. 
Children : 

a. Ethel May, b. Mar. 18, 1873 ; d. in infancy. 

b. William Todd, b. June 6, 1881 ; d. in infancy. 

c. George Morris, b. July 18, 1886. 

3. Herman Adelbert, b. June 5, 1850, at Ararat, Pa. ; m. Apr. 

1882, Dora Rose. 

192. iv. Susan 6 , b. Mar. 23, 1817, at Paris Hill; d. Apr. 7, 
1894, at Clinton, N. Y. She married, Apr. 30, 1844, 
Rollin, son of Eleazar and Electa (Patton) Root of 
Clinton, N. Y. He was b. in Farmington, Conn., 
Dec. 18, 1817 ; d. at Clinton, N. Y., Sept. 6, 1888. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Charlotte Smithson, b. June 20, 1845. 

2. Hubert Arthur, b. Feb. 15, 1847; m. July 13, 1869, Matilda 

Shonten. Children : 

a. Arthur Rollin, b. Nov. 22, 1870 ; m. Lou Loomis. 

b. Frederick Shonten, b. Mar. 19, 1873. 

c. Frank Elliott, b. Apr. 8, 1878; m. Ruby Nelson. 

d. Edward, b. Feb. 5, 1882. 

e. Emma Susan, b. July 12, 1887. 

3. Frederick Augustine, b. May 23, 1848; m. Dec. 7, 1871, Mary 

Sutton. Children : 

a. Lizzie, b. Mar. 1, 1875 ! d. young. 

b. Percy Ray, b. May 16, 1884. 

4. Susan Eliot, b. June 7, 1856. 

+ 193. v. John Edward 6 , b. Jan. 1, 1821 ; d. July 6, 1880. 
194. vi. Joseph 6 , b. Feb. 9, 1828 ; d. Feb. 25, 1831. 



89. YOUNGS 5 (John", Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Locksmith and 
farmer in Washington, Conn. He married, Aug. 12, 1799, 
Sarah (71), daughter of Nathan (30) and Clarina (Griswold) 
Eliot of Kent, Conn., b. Aug. 27, 1776 ; d. Nov. 2, 1840. 



CHILDREN. 



195. i. Fanny Griswold 6 , b. May 19, 1800; d. Jan. 6, 1881. 

She m. at Washington, Conn., Dec. 18, 1822, Ithiel, son of 
Curtiss and Sally (Brown) Hickox, b. June 9, 1799; d. Jan. 



Io8 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

19, 1870. He was one of the leading democrats of Washington, 
for many years Judge of Probate, and was sent to the Legis- 
lature. As he belonged to the minority party, liberal support 
from the republicans was necessary to elect him. He was 
prominent in all progressive movements in his town, a public- 
spirited and liberal citizen. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Frances Amelia, b. Nov. 2, 1823, in Washington, Conn.; d. Nov. 

2, 1856, in Buffalo, N. Y. ; m. Jan. 9, 1855, Caleb Jewett. 
Child : 
a. Frances Hickox, b. Oct. 26, 1856, in Buffalo, N. Y. 

2. George Augustus, b. June 11, 1830, in Washington, Conn.; d. 

June 7, 1903. He graduated from Trinity Coll. in 185 1 with 
high honors, and later from the Yale Law School. He settled 
in the historic town of Litchfield, Conn., the county seat and 
a place celebrated for its intellectual and social life. There 
he became prominent in his profession and through his excep- 
tional character and strong mind a loved and honored citizen. 
In 1866 he assumed proprietorship of the Litchfield Enquirer, 
and was for twenty-five years its editor, making his paper an 
educational and political power throughout the State. He was 
a man of rare gifts, intellectual and moral, and was highly 
cultivated in the arts of music and literature. He m. Apr. 
22, 1856, at Charleston, S. C, Mary Catherine, dau. of Wm. 
and Julia (Lowndes) Brisbane, b. Jan. 13, 1832. She is a 
great-granddaughter of Rawlins Lowndes, a successful lawyer 
in Charleston, S. C. Lowndes was member of the Council of 
Safety in 1775, in 1776 was one of a committee to draught a 
constitution for the province and was a member of the legis- 
lative council created by the constitution. In 1778, he was 
elected president of the province. Children : 

a. Wm. Brisbane, b. Mar. 18, 1863; m. Zaydee B. Keese of 

Brooklyn. Children : Zillah Keese, Frances Eliot. 

b. Frances Eliot, b. Apr. 1, 1864. 

196. ii. John Spalding , b. Feb. 8, 1802; d. June 30, 1806. 



92. ROBERT 5 {John*, Jared*, Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Druggist, and 
afterwards postmaster in Albany, N. Y. He married, Nov. 7, 
1809, Rachel, dau. of Isaac Denniston, b. Apr. 18, 1789; d. Apr. 
27, 1843. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 109 

CHILDREN. 

197. i. Isaac Denniston 6 , b. Aug. 10, 1810; d. Oct. 17, 1842. 

198. ii. Ellen Elizabeth 6 , b. July 29, 1812 ; d. July 2, 1838. 

She married Apr. 1836, Rufus ■ King, Esq., of 
Albany, N. Y. 

199. iii. Edward 6 , b. Jan. 29, 1814; d. Feb. 2, 1837, at St. 

Croix, W. I. 

200. iv. Frances 6 , b. Aug. 9, 1816; d. May 16, 1884, at 

Montreal, Canada. She married in 1836, Charles L. 
Austin, who d. in 1866. He graduated at the Univ. 
of Vermont and was a lawyer at Albany, N. Y. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Edward, b. Feb. 1837; m. ; d. without issue. 

2. Ellen, b. Mar. 12, 1839; m. Edmund Barnard, a lawyer of 

Montreal. Children : v 

a. Fanny A., b. May 29, 1859; m. Hon. Jules Tessier of 

Quebec, a life senator of the Dominion of Canada. 

b. Archibald, b. Nov. 10, i860; lawyer in San Francisco, Cal. 

c. Ellen, b. Apr. 1862; m. J. A. Richard, a merchant of 

Montreal. Child : Elodie. 

d. Mary, b. Oct. 10, 1863, a Sister of the Sacred Heart. 

e. Kate, b. Mar. 12, 1865; m. Hon. C. J. Doherty, Judge 

Superior Court of Montreal ; one son and one daughter., 

f. Charles A., b. Aug. 12, 1866, lawyer in Montreal ; m. Marie 

Lamotte. Child : one son. 

g. Edward, b. Oct. 8, 1869. 

h. Juliette, b. Apr. 1872; m. J. P. Cassidy of Albany, N. Y., 
Mrs. Cassidy is now Ste. Agathe des Monts, of Quebec, 
Canada. Children: Clinton, b. Dec. 31, 1893; Frances, 
b. June 2, 1895. 

i. Elodie, b. Jan. 16, 1875. 

j. Madelaine, b. Nov. 5, 1876. 

3. Charles, b. 1841 ; d. 1845. 

+ 201. v. John Denniston 6 , b. Feb. 7, 1818; d. Feb. 2, 1885, at 
Schenectady, N. Y. 

202. vi. Hugh Denniston 6 , b. Mar. 29, 1820; d. May 2, 1849, 

at Schenectady, N. Y. 

203. vii. Susan McKnown 6 , b. June 29, 1826, at Albany, 

N. Y. ; d. at Lausaune, Switzerland, Feb. 14, 1892. 

She was educated at Albany Female Academy ; m. Nov. 9, 

1843, Gen. Rufus King, b. at No. 3 Pearl street, New York 

City, Jan. 26, 1814; d. Oct. 13, 1876. He was one of the star 



IIO DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

graduates of West Point, class of 1833, an d served as lieutenant 
of engineers a few years. He then resigned, to accept the 
position of civil engineer in charge of one of the divisions in the 
survey of the New York and Erie Railway. 

He was appointed Adjutant General of the State of New York, 
Jan. 1, 1839, by Governor Seward, and served until Jan. 1, 1843. 
At the same time he was editor of the Albany Daily Advertiser, 
and later, associate editor, with Thurlow Weed, of the Albany 
Journal until the fall of 1845, when he moved to Milwaukee to 
take charge of the Milwaukee Sentinel. 

In 1861 he was appointed Minister to the Pontifical States at 
Rome, Italy, but resigned at the outbreak of the Civil W'ar, that 
he might tender his services to his country. He was appointed 
May 17, 1861, Brigadier-General of volunteers, and commanded 
a division of the Army of the Potomac until 1863, when failing 
health compelled his resignation. He was at once reappointed 
Minister to Rome, serving there until the summer of 1867, 
when he returned to America, and resided in or near New York 
City until his death. 

CHILDREN. 

I. Charles, b. Oct. 12, 1844, at Albany, N. Y. 

Charles King, the military hero and well known story-teller, is surely 
a figure of which any family may be proud. Those who know him 
say that one discerns in him the best traits of character in the bravest 
heroes which he has pictured. 

His great-grandfather on his father's side was Rufus King, signer 
of the Declaration of Independence, one of the shapers of destiny 
of New York State at that period, twice United States Minister to 
England. 

His grandfather, Charles King, was one of the early presidents of 
Columbia College, a scholar of noble attainments. His father's fine 
career is noted above. 

Charles was a lad at school in New York when the war of the 
Rebellion began. The guns of Fort Sumter fired his soldier's blood — he 
made his way to Washington and became drummer boy to the Wisconsin 
Volunteers and busily engaged in teaching the art to others. He was 
promoted to the post of mounted orderly, and in time, in 1862, when his 
abilities were recognized, was given a cadetship at West Point by 
President Lincoln. After his graduation he was removed in succession 
to posts at New Orleans, Fort Hamilton, and in 1871 to Arizona. 

In New Orleans he met the lady who became his wife, Miss Yorke, 
the daughter of a southern gentleman. In his fights with the Apaches 
he displayed that coolness and recklessness and indifference to danger 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. Ill 

which have made of him the ideal leader. He was seriously disabled in 
the historic fight at "Sunset Pass" in Nov. 1874, but recovered suffi- 
ciently to take part in the Big Horn and Yellowstone expeditions and 
later, in the Nez Perces campaign. By this time, 1878, he was Captain, 
but the old wound in the right arm giving him serious trouble, he 
retired from the service and returned to Wisconsin, where he became 
instructor in military matters in the Madison University and Colonel 
and Aide-de-Camp in the State military organizations. In 1895 he 
was appointed Adjutant General of Wisconsin. After this we are 
not surprised to know that when the war with Spain broke out he 
was ready to go. Renewed health enabled him to respond to his 
country's call and he accepted the post of Brigadier General of Volun- 
teers. He left for the Philippines June 1898, where he commanded 
the men of the First Washington, First California, and First Idaho. 
But he counted too much on his health, and after a series of exciting 
adventures, was forced to retire in Aug. 1899; not, however, until he 
had done such signal service to his country and shown such conspicuous 
bravery that he was recommended for promotion, in March 1899, to the 
position of Major General of Volunteers. 

Since his last two experiences he has devoted himself to the writing 
of stories and magazine articles, which he turns off in rapid succession, 
having accumulated the material during his active and eventful life. 
"Between the Lines" and the "General's Double" are his favorite 
stories. His first book "Kitty's Conquest" was written in the seventies. 
"The Colonel's Daughter" appeared in 1881. The writer of this sketch 
having asked him for a list of his books, he replied : "I have written 
forty-five books — forty more than I would have written if — ; don't ask 
me for their names!" He married Nov. 20, 1872, at Avoca Plantation, 
Carroll Parish, La., Adelaide L. Yorke. 

CHILDREN. 

a. Adelaide Patton, b. Dec. 25, 1873, at Avoca, La. 

b. Carolyn Merritt, b. Aug. 30, 1877, at Fort Russell, Wyo. 

c. Elinor Yorke, b. Sept. 24, 1881, at Madison, Wis. 

d. Rufus, b. Jan. 16, 1885, at Nemahlin Place, Wis. 

2. Frances, b. Oct. 11, 1846, at Milwaukee, Wis.; educated partly 
in New York, partly at Rome, Italy; m. Oct. 16, 1869, at 
Staten Island, N. Y., Edmund A. Ward. She lives at present 
(1904) in Lausanne, Switzerland, though her American home 
is at Richfield Springs, N. Y. Children: 

a. Edward, b. Oct. 28, 1870 ; d. 

b. Henrietta King, b. Apr. 29, 1872, New York. 

c. Anne Williston, b. Dec. 26, 1873. 

d. Susan Eliot, b. Feb. 5, 1877; m. Oct. 10, 1902, Thomas A. 

Airey of London, England. 

e. Frances, b. Nov. 18, 1880, at Biarritz, France. 



112 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

204. viii. Julia French 6 , b. Apr. 26, 1828; d. June 4, 1903. 
She married first, at Albany, N. Y., in 1846, Patrick 
Smythe; d. at Milwaukee, July 5, 1857. Child: 

a. Rufus King, b. Oct. 2, 1847. 

Married second, March, 1859, Charles A. Hamilton, grandson 
of Gen. Alexander Hamilton, d. Nov. 1901. He served with 
distinction during the Civil War, was lieutenant-colonel of 7th 
Wis., commanded regulars during latter part of engagement 
and was severely wounded at Gainesville. In 1880 he was 
elected Circuit Judge of Milwaukee County and served six 
years. Child : 

b. Daughter, d. 1876. 

+ 205. ix. Robert , b. Jan. 14, 1830. 



95. GEORGE 5 (George*, Jared z , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer in 
Killingworth, a man of weight in the community, filling many 
public offices, and for several years representing his native town 
in the Legislature. He was courtly and dignified in manner, 
known by the title "Esquire George." He married, Dec. 23, 
1790, Patience, dau. of Noah Lane of Killingworth. She died 
Oct. 6, 1852. 

CHILD. 

-f- 206. i. Ely Augustus 6 , b. Sept. 18, 1791 ; d. Jan. 7, 1870. 



96. JOHN 5 (George 4 , Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). A.B. Yale Coll. 
1786 ; S.T.D. Yale Coll. 1822 ; pastor of the church in Madison. 
He married Sarah, dau. of Lot Norton of Salisbury. After 
his death she married Hon. Elisha Sterling and d. July 9, 
1841. 
Dr. Elliott is thus described by the Rev. Dr. John Todd : 
"He was a tall, very thin and slim man. His legs, always 
dressed in black stockings and small clothes, seemed too slender 
to hold him up. How neatly he was always dressed — not a 
spot or wrinkle on his garments! What a broad-brimmed hat 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 113 

he wore — renewed just once in two years. His manner and 
bearing were most gentlemanly. He was a fine scholar, a 
genuine lover of study, a capital preacher, a wise and shrewd 
man, never trying to be rich or known, but well-known, and all 
his life long he received the enormous salary of four hundred 
dollars a year. He was the life and soul of the village library, 
and ready for every good work. How we boys and girls were 
wont to look upon him with awe and reverence, unable to 
believe that the common frailties of human nature hung about 
him ! I never dared to enter his front door till I had been a 
member of college a year or two. I have never since met the 
minister who seemed to me so great." 

One instance of his wise foresight was the establishment of 
the Ministerial Fund in Madison, Conn. 

Prior to 1818 the institutions of the Gospel were supported 
by taxing all the inhabitants within the bounds of a society. 
By a provision of the constitution then adopted, the support of 
religion was made entirely voluntary. Dr. Elliott was so appre- 
hensive of the failure of this plan that he determined a minis- 
terial fund should be raised for the benefit of the church and 
society. It should be kept at interest until it amounted to 
$10,000. It became available in 1855. In 1901 it amounted to 
about $12,000. 

Dr. Elliott's grave is surrounded by the graves of those to 
whom he ministered. It is marked by an obelisk, upon which 
is inscribed : 

Sacred 

to the memory of the 

Rev' d John Elliott D.D. 

Fellow of Yale College & 

Pastor of the church & 

Society in this place. 

After having faithfully discha- 

-rged the duties of the ministry 

33 years, he died Dec. 17, 1824 

Ae 56 

Much beloved by the people of his 

Charge, & respected by all who knew him. 

After his death, his widow returned to her native Salisbury, 
Conn., and married again. The inscription upon her grave- 
stone shows the pride she felt in her first husband. 



114 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Sally, Relict of the Hon. Elisha Sterling 
formerly the Wife of the late John Elliott, D.D. 
late of Madison Con deceased and daughter 
of the late Lot Norton Esq. died July 9, A. D. 1841 : 
aged 75 years. 

My flesh shall rest in hope. 

In the Reports of the Treasurer of Yale University, in the 
List of the Funds of the Theological Department, is the 
"Elliott Fund." This fund amounted in 1901 to $1,780.80. 

The origin of this fund was as follows: "Rev. John Elliott 
of Madison, Conn, (formerly called East Guilford), bequeathed 
to the College 'The Neck Lot,' subject to two conditions: 
i. That the lot should be sold and the proceeds used for the 
benefit of the Theological Department, ii. That the interest 
should be spent for books except one per cent which should be 
added to the permanent fund." One of these days it will 
amount to "something handsome." 

In the Catalogue of Relics exhibited at the 250th anniversary 
of the settlement of Guilford, Conn., Sept. 8th, 9th and 10th, 
1889, is : 

"Profile Picture of Rev. Dr. John Elliott and wife, taken 
nearly 100 years ago." 

The picture was owned and loaned by Miss Lucy Norton of 
Madison. 

For other material relating to Rev. John, see O. E. G., pages 
96, 97, 98, 99. 



97. SAMUEL 5 (George*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Sea captain 
in Killingworth. He married Mrs. Jane Towner, dau. of J. 
Crane of Killingworth. She d. Mar. 1802, aged about 34. 

CHILD. 

207. i. Louisa 6 , b. Feb. 23, 1800. 

She married first, Mar. 17, 1823, Daniel Hewitt of Lansing- 
burgh, N. Y., who died in 1826. She married second, Jan. 19, 
1830, John W. Turner of Oswego, N. Y., b. Feb. 23, 1800. He 
removed in 1846 to Northampton, Saginaw Co., Mich., where 
he was extensively engaged in the lumber business. In 1852 
he was a member of the Michigan Legislature. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 1 15 

CHILDREN, BY SECOND HUSBAND. 

John Eliot, b. Oct. 10, 1831 ; d. May 17, 1838. 
Mary Louisa, b. Jan. 24, 1834. 
Jane Elizabeth, b. Nov. 7, 1836 ; d. Feb. 5, 1842. 
Ellen Calista, b. Jan. 31, 1839; d. Jan. 2, 1842. 
Ada Frances, b. Jan. 13, 1844. 



102. ACHILLES HENRY 5 (George', Jaredr, Joseph-, John 1 ). 
He graduated at Yale Coll. in 1802, and settled in Clinton, 
Conn., where he was a farmer, and for many years postmaster. 
He married, Sept. 5, 181 1, Mary, dau. of William Stannard of 
Saybrook, b. Oct. 6, 1790. 

CHILDREN. 

208. i. Miriam Jerusha 6 , b. July 6, 1812; d. Aug. 7, 1815. 

209. ii. Miriam Jerusha 6 , b. Sept. 10, 1815; d. Sept. 15, 1850. 

She married, Oct. 4, 1845, Justin A. Bliss, a merchant 
of New York. 
+ 210. iii. John Henry 6 , b. Jan. 31, 1819; d. Feb. 17, 1864. 



104. WILLIAM 5 (Nathaniel*, Abiel 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer 
in Guilford. It is said that he loved to write and to make 
rhymes. The rhyming faculty is strong in this branch of the 
family. He kept a diary — part of this is still in existence, and 
many of its rambling accounts are quaint and full of interest. 
He married, Nov. 26, 1780, Ruth, daughter of Nathaniel and 
Deborah (Fowler) Rossiter of Guilford. Ruth was born Apr. 
I 7> I 757 5 d. July 19, 1814. Nathaniel Rossiter was born in 
1716, and Deborah in 1722. He was the son of Ensign 
Nathaniel Rossiter and Anna Stone (daughter of Lieutenant 
Nathaniel and Mary (Bartlett) Stone), and this Nathaniel 
Rossiter was the son of Josiah Rossiter (d. Jan. 31, 1716) 
and Sarah (Mitchell) Sherman of Woodbury. Josiah was one 
of eleven children and was himself the father of seventeen ! 
Josiah's father was Dr. Bryan (or Bray) Rossiter, who came to 
America with his father, Edward Rossiter, in the "Mary & 
John" in June, 1630. Edward Rossiter came as Governor 



Il6 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Winthrop's assistant, and died the same year. Dr. Bryan was 
the chief promoter of the Dorchester Colony in 1631, whence 
he removed to Windsor, Conn., in 1639, where he was first 
town clerk. He removed to Guilford in 165 1 and died Sept. 
30, 1672. His wife was Elizabeth Alsop, dau. of John Alsop 
and Temperance Gilbert of Alsop-in-the-Dale, England. She 
came over with her brothers Timothy and George, and joined 
the church in Milford, Conn., in 1642. 

Mrs. Emerson of Detroit has a deed signed by both William 
and Ruth Elliot, also by Nathaniel Rossiter, in regard to 
property coming from Deborah (Fowler) Rossiter (later, Mrs. 
Nathaniel Ruggles). It is dated 1812. 

CHILDREN OF WILLIAM AND RUTH ELLIOT. 

+ 211. i. William Horace 6 , b. Sept. 13, 1781 ; d. Feb. 10, 1865. 

+ 212. ii. Charles 6 , b. July 29, 1787 ; d. May 14, 1870. 

-j- 213. iii. George Augustus 6 , b. June 6, 1792 ; d. July 23, 1870. 



106. SAMUEL 5 (Wyllys\ Abial 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Merchant in 
Guilford. He married, Aug. 10, 1817, Mary Butler, dau. of 
William Baldwin, Esq., of Litchfield, and sister of Rev. David 
Baldwin of Guilford. She was b. Mar. 11, 1791 ; d. Mar. 1, 
1882. 

CHILDREN. 

214. i. George Wyllys 6 , b. Dec. 18, 1818; d. Aug. 31, 1863, 

at Guilford. He was a merchant in Albany. 

215. ii. John Scoville 6 , b. Dec. 25, 1820; d. Nov. 21, 1903. 

Farmer in Guilford. 

216. iii. William Henry 6 , b. Sept. 3, 1823 ; d. Aug. 24, 1897, 

at Guilford. He was a merchant in California and 
Guilford; married Mar. 26, 1883, Sarah Augusta, 
dau. of David K. and Mary E. (Stone) Parmelee of 
Guilford, b. Jan. 11, 1843. 

217. iv. Andrew Ward 6 , b. Jan. 28, 1826 ; d. Feb. 9, 1890. He 

was a merchant in New York and a member of the 
N. Y. Produce Exchange. 
None of the brothers left anv issue. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 117 

110. REUBEN 5 (Wyllys\ AbiaP, Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Merchant in 
Guilford, and for several years Judge of Probate and Post- 
master. He married, Aug. 17, 1794, Grace, dau. of Asher and 
Thankful (Hubbard) Fairchild of Guilford. She was b. Feb. 
26, 1775; d. July 28, 1 841. 

CHILDREN. 

218. i. Clarissa Betsey 6 , b. Feb. 17, 1795 ; d. Nov. 8, 1831. 

She married first, Dec. 30, 1818, Elisha Parmelee of 
Guilford; b. May 21, 1795; d. July 21, 1821 ; 
second, Apr. 11, 1827. David Parmelee of Guilford, 
b. Oct. 3, 1784; d. Apr. 6, 1870. 

CHILDREN, BY FIRST HUSBAND. 

i. Edward Fairchild, b. Aug. 11, 1819, of Trenton, X. J. 

2. Elizabeth Hart. b. Jan. 29, 1821 ; d. Aug. 25, 1898. She was a 

school teacher in Philadelphia. 

CHILD, BY SECOND HUSBAND. 

3. Clarissa Emma, b. Feb. 25, 1828; m. Oct. 10. 1847, Horace 

Redfield of Meriden, Conn. He was b. Apr. 4, 1821 ; d. Feb. 
28, 1889. 

219. ii. Caroline Ruth 6 , b. Jan. 26. 1797; d. Jan. 7, 1881. 

She married, Sept. 18, 1817, John Hart Bartlett of 
Guilford, b. Sept. 4, 1796; d. Jan. 7, 1881. 

CHILDREN. 

1. John, b. July 26, 1818; d. Aug. 2, 1818. 

2. Caroline Ruth, b. May 18, 1821 ; d. July 26. 1851. She m. Samuel 

King of Albany and left a family ( ?) 

-|- 220. iii. Richard Samuel 6 , b. June 22, 1799; d. Olmstead, O., 
Aug. 18, 1869. 

-f- 221. iv. Xelson James 6 , b. May 11, 1801 ; d. Feb. 13, 1864. 
222. v. Harriet Ward 6 , b. Apr. 22, 1803 ; d. Aug. 17, 1843. 
She married, Oct. 12. 1823. Lewis Leete of Guil- 
ford, son of James Leete and Zibeah (Richards) 
Miller. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Elizabeth Heaton, b. Sept. 30, 1827. at New Haven, Conn.; d. 
Feb. 18, 1896; m. Feb. 18, 1845, at Philadelphia. Pa., John 
Strickland Struthers (son of the John Struthers who presented 



Il8 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

to the Washington family the marble sarcophagus wherein the 
remains of the first President of the United States now repose). 
He was, during the entire war of the Rebellion, a captain in the 
Pennsylvania Cavalry, and for three months was a prisoner in 
Libby prison, Richmond, Va. He d. Oct. 26, 1901. Children: 

a. Helen, b. Feb. 28, 1847, at Tuscarora, Pa. 

b. William, b. Oct. 14, 1854, at Tuscarora, Pa. 

c. Mary Leete, b. June 18, 1857, at Germantown, Pa. ; m. Aug. 

1899, Edwin Starr Ward of Germantown, Phila., Pa. 

d. Agnes Marion, b. Jan. 17, i860, at Newark, N. J. 

2. Ellen Augusta, d. 1851. 

3. Mary Chittenden, b. June 10, 1832, at Guilford, Conn. ; d. July 

12, 1903, at Germantown, Pa. She m. Feb. 1856, at German- 
town, Pa., Charles Witman Otto, b. Feb. 27, 1824, at Pottsville, 
Pa. ; d. Nov. 22, 1901, at Germantown, Pa. He was a person 
of great worth and prominence in Germantown and was con- 
nected with the National Bank of Germantown for over fifty 
years as cashier, vice president and president. In 1901 a 
jubilee was given in his honor in commemoration of his fifty 
years of service in the bank. Child : 
a. Elizabeth Leete, b. Sept. 30, 1859, at Germantown, Pa. 

4. Lewis Eliot, d. Apr. 29, 1853, at Pottsville, Pa. 

223. vi. Cornelia Maria 6 , b. May 6, 1806; d. June 5, 1895, 

at Guilford. 

224. vii. Grace Fairchild 6 , b. Mar. 19, 1810; d. Aug. 21, 

1858. She married Oct. 16, 1834, Abraham Coan 
of Guilford, b. Mar. 30, 1809; d. in Mobile, Ala., 
Aug. 18, 1 841. 

CHILD. 

i. Grace Eliot, b. Mar. 4, 1841 ; d. at Orange, N. J., Mar. 17, 1889; 
buried at Alderbrook Cemetery, Guilford, Conn. She was a 
teacher. 

225. viii. Jane Augusta 6 , b. Feb. 1, 1812; d. Oct. 18, 1858, at 

Guilford. 
+ 226. ix. Franklin Reuben 6 , b. in Guilford, Conn., Apr. 27, 
1817; d. Cleveland, O., Jan. 10, 1878. 



111. ANDREW 5 (Wyllys 4 , AbiaP, Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Merchant in 
Guilford. He married Sept. 22, 1796, Catharine, dau. of Henry 
Hill, Esq., of Guilford, b. July 19, 1776; d. Feb. 8, 1862. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 119 

CHILDREN. 

227. i. Catharine Hill 6 , b. May n, 1799; d. May 3, 1854. 

She married, Sept. 9, 1824, Rose well Woodward of 
Georgetown, D. C, later of New York City, b. 
Sept. 7, 1795 ; d. Sept. 3, 1869, at Guilford. 

CHILDREN. 

1. John Ruggles, b. June 17, 1825; d. Sept. 14, 1898, at Stamford, 

Conn. 

2. Elizabeth Eliot, b. July 15, 1827; d. July 10, 1899, at Milton, 

Mass. 

3. Richard Hill, b. Feb. 14, 1830; m. Dec. 14, 1858, at Clinton, 

Conn., Julia A. Brooks, dau. of Nathan and Nancy Brooks 
of Guilford, b. Aug. 30, 1832, at Clinton, Conn. Children : 

a. Catherine Eliot, b. Aug. 30, i860. 

b. John Brooks, b. May 9, 1864; m. Helen L. S. Pettit of 

Chicago. k 

c. Charles Rosewell, b. Sept. 15, 1865. 

4. Catharine Virginia, b. July 23, 1832. 

5. Charles Henry, b. Aug. 14, 1835 ; d. Mar. 30, 1900, in Wash- 

ington, D. C. 

6. William Rosewell, b. Aug. 21, 1840; d. July 5, 1890, at Brooklyn. 

He m. Mar. 5, 1867, Mary Louise, dau. of Sylvanus S. Town- 
send, of Brooklyn. Children : 

a. William Townsend, b. Apr. 16, 1868; d. 

b. Edward Sylvanus, b. Mar. 22, 1871 ; m. Mabel C. Richards. 

228. ii. Wyllys Henry 6 , b. June 11, 1801 ; d. Mar. 9, 1802. 

229. iii. Abigail Ward 6 , b. Dec. 24, 1803 ; d. Mar. 7, 1838. 
-f- 230. iv. Henry Hill 6 , b. Aug. 30, 1805 ; d. Sept. 2, 1868. 

231. v. Elizabeth Betts 6 , b. Nov. 16, 1807 ; d. May 30, 1878. 
She married Sept. 9, 1827, Samuel Edmund Foote 
of Guilford, later of Cincinnati and New Haven, b. 
Oct. 29, 1787; d. Nov. 1, 1858. 

CHILDREN. 

1. George Augustus, b. Mar. 2, 1829 ; d. Nov. 3, 1834. 

2. Frances Elizabeth, b. Oct. 6, 1835; d. Apr. 12, 1875. She m. 

July 29, 1859, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, b. Oct. 2, 1831, at 
Moyne, County Wicklow, Ireland; d. May 21, 1902, at Green- 
way House, Brixham, Devonshire, England. He was the son 
of Rev. James and Sarah (Lawrence) Godkin. He was 
admitted to the English Bar, and went to the Crimea as 
war correspondent for the London Daily News. He came to 
the United States in the autumn of 1856, and traveled through 
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120 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

the Southern states to make a study of the economic and 
social conditions of the South. He afterwards studied law 
in the office of David Dudley Field in New York, and was 
admitted to the New York Bar. He started the "Nation" 
in 1865, and later became one of the editors of the New York 
Evening Post, which position he held until shortly before his 
death. Children : 

a. Lawrence, b. May 31, i860; graduated at Harvard College 

1881, Columbia College Law School 1883; lives (1904) in 
New York. 

b. Elizabeth Eliot, b. May 3, 1865 ; d. May 30, 1878. 

c. Ralph, b. July 10, 1868; d. Sept. 12, 1868. 

3. Katharine Virginia, b. Aug. 9, 1839 ; d. Mar. 24, 1902 ; m. June 

20, 1865, Gen. Alfred Perkins Rockwell, son of John Arnold 
and Mary W. (Perkins) Rockwell, b. at Norwich, Conn., 
Oct. 1834; d. at New Haven, Conn., Dec. 24, 1903. He 
graduated from Yale in 1855 '> studied mining engineering in 
London and Freiburg; became professor of mining engineer- 
ing in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale, and later held 
the same position in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
in Boston. He was president of the Eastern R. R. from 
1876-79, and later, head of the Fire Department of Boston. 

Before becoming professor in the Sheffield Scientific School, 
he went into the War of the Rebellion, as Captain of the 
First Conn. Artillery, and was afterwards Colonel of the Sixth 
Conn. Infantry. He saw service in South Carolina and Vir- 
ginia, and took part in many battles, and in the siege of 
Petersburg. His last exploit was the capture of Fort Fisher 
in North Carolina, which took place on the last day of his 
term of service, and his service was so conspicuous that he 
was brevetted Brigadier General. He retired from business 
about seventeen years before his death. Children : 

a. Mary Foote, b. May 5, 1868 ; d. Aug. 2, 1868. 

b. Frances Beatrice, b. Jan. 25, 1872; d. Mar. 5, 1886. 

c. Samuel Edmund Foote, b. July 28, 1873 ; d. Mar. 18, ) 

1884. r twil ' s - 

d. Katharine Diana Ward, b. July 28, 1873. ) 

4. Harry Ward, b. Aug. 5, 1844; d. June 28, 1873, at New Haven. 

232. vi. Charles S. 8 , b. 1809; d. Jan. 3, 181 1, aged 16 mos. 

(See tombstone at Guilford.) 

233. vii. Sarah Hart 6 , b. July 5, 1814; d. Feb. 4, 1885. She 

married, Dec. 17, 1834, Rev. James H. Perkins of 
Cincinnati, O. He was b. in Boston, July 31, 1810 ; 
d. Dec. 14, 1849. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 12 1 

CHILD. 
I. Charles Elliott, b. Nov. 24, 1840. 

Charles Elliott, for twenty years president of the Chicago, Burlington 
& Quincy Railroad, is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, and on both 
the paternal and maternal sides is descended from ancestors who were 
of old Puritan stock, and were prominently identified with the early 
history of the New England colonies. The first family to settle in 
America was Edmund Perkins, who emigrated from England in 1650, 
and was a member of the Salem Colony of Massachusetts, and from 
him descended a line of ancestors of the Perkins family, who have 
ever been distinguished, not only in the New England States, but in 
the western country, in which many of them subsequently made their 
homes. Our subject takes his middle name from his mother's family, 
the Eliots, who were no less distinguished in the early annals of New 
England. Their first ancestor also landed in Massachusetts, but the 
family afterward removed to Connecticut. 

Charles E. Perkins was educated in Cincinnati, Ohio, until sixteen 
years of age, when he engaged as clerk in a store, where he learned 
practical bookkeeping and business methods. After some years' service 
in that line, he came to Burlington, Iowa, in August, 1859, and was 
given a clerkship in the office of Charles R. Lowell, the assistant treas- 
urer of the Burlington & Missouri Railroad, at the munificent salary of 
$30 a month. He was soon made paymaster under Mr. Lowell, and 
filled that position until late in the autumn of i860, when Mr. Lowell, 
having accepted the position of manager of the Mt. Savage Iron Works, 
at Cumberland, Md., left the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad 
service, and Mr. Perkins, who was only twenty years of age, was 
promoted to the office of assistant treasurer. 

Until January, 1865, Mr. Perkins continued to serve as assistant 
treasurer, when Hans Thielsen (the superintendent of the road at that 
time) was called to Nebraska to serve as chief engineer in making a 
survey of the road to be built from Plattsmouth to Kearney Junction, 
and Mr. Perkins was made acting superintendent, to fill the vacancy. 
Some months later, it having been determined to extend the Burlington 
& Missouri River Railroad to the Missouri River, and that Mr. Thielsen 
was to devote his attention to that part of the work, Mr. Perkins was 
promoted to be superintendent of the road, which at that time extended 
only from Burlington to Ottumwa, a distance of seventy-five miles. 
During the period of construction of the road through to the Missouri 
River, he served both as superintendent and vice president. In the 
meantime he had been active in promoting the organization of the Bur- 
lington & Missouri River Railroad Company in Nebraska, of which he 
was one of the incorporators and a member of the first board of 
directors, being chosen to that position October 28, 1869. On the 26th 
day of July, 1871, he was elected a director of the Burlington & 
Missouri River Railroad Company in Iowa; the Nebraska road was 
opened through to Kearney Junction in the summer of 1872, and 



122 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

November 4th of that year Mr. Perkins was chosen vice president of 
that company. Upon the consolidation of the Burlington & Missouri 
River Railroad Company of Iowa with the Chicago, Burlington & 
Quincy Railroad of Illinois, on January I, 1873, he was deprived of 
his official connection with the former company through the changed 
condition of affairs. On the 2d of April, 1875, Mr. Perkins was chosen 
a member of the board of directors of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 
Railroad, then owning and operating the original road in Illinois and 
the newly acquired extension in Iowa; and on the 2d day of March, 
1876, he was elected vice president of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 
Company, still retaining the vice presidency and general management 
of the road west of the Missouri River. On the 5th day of May he 
was elected president of the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad 
in Iowar and on the first day of January, 1880, the Burlington & 
Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska became consolidated with the 
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, throwing the whole under 
one corporate management, Mr. Perkins remaining as vice president 
until September 29, 1881, when he was chosen president. He has been 
re-elected at each succeeding election, and is now serving his eighteenth 
year in that capacity. Mr. Perkins is also officially connected with 
several other railroad corporations which are connected with the Chicago, 
Burlington & Quincy Railroad, and is director and president of the 
Hannibal & St. Joseph and the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs 
Railroads, the two named being maintained as distinct and separate 
corporations. 

When Mr. Perkins first came to Burlington, nearly thirty years ago, 
in August, 1859, he was not quite nineteen years of age, so that it may 
be said of him that he began his connection with the important 
corporation of which he is now chief executive officer, or rather with 
a constituent part of it, while but a boy, and that he has earned and 
won, by superior executive ability, energy and fidelity to the trust 
reposed in him, an honorable promotion through all the grades of ser- 
vice, from that of a clerk in the treasurer's office to his present 
prominent and responsible position, as chief executive officer of one 
of the greatest railway systems of the country. 

It may be an item of interest to make some mention of the places 
of abode and the manner of Mr. Perkins' way of living in his early 
days in Burlington. He first made his home with Mr. Lowell and 
Leo Carper, both of whom were connected with the railway company. 
They lived together in what was known as Patterson's hollow, now 
Agency street, until the fall of i860, when they removed to Shepard 
Leffler's farm, now West Burlington. Mr. Lowell had taken a lease 
of Mr. Leffler's farm and house, which he transferred to Mr. Perkins 
when he left Burlington for Mt. Savage. The following spring (1861) 
Mr. Perkins succeeded in getting Mr. Leffler to take the farm off his 
hands and thus escaped becoming a granger. He then returned to the 
city, and for a while boarded at the Barrett House, and later with 
Mrs. Fletcher, on North Hill, in the house owned and occupied by 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 12 3 

R. M. Raab. Remaining there until the fall of 1862, Mr. Perkins then 
rented a house on South Hill, of Mr. Nelson Dills, which he afterwards 
purchased, and in which he now resides. There were originally sixty 
acres in the place, but he has sold off several tracts until he now has 
but twenty acres, which, with the commodious residence, beautiful groves 
and lawns, makes an elegant and pleasant suburban home. At the 
time of his marriage, in the autumn of 1864, he established his residence 
on the place now owned by Mrs. Erastus Chamberlain on North Hill, 
remaining there until the spring of 1867, when he sold to Mr. Chamber- 
lain, and purchased the Dills farm, to which he removed at once. 
While Mr. Perkins and his family spend some months each year in 
Boston, Burlington is their home. 

Mr. Perkins is a republican in his political sentiments, but is not 
in any sense a politician. His important business relations, both private 
and official, leave him no time, even were he so disposed, to win promi- 
nence in the political arena. As a rule, large corporations recognize 
superior ability and integrity of character in their employes, and reward 
true merit with promotion, and while the motive on the part of the 
corporation may be purely selfish, the success of the individual officer 
is none the less creditable. This is well illustrated in the career of 
Mr. Perkins in Burlington. Beginning before reaching his majority as 
a clerk at $30 per month, he has steadily risen through all the grades. 
— (From "Progressive Men of Iowa," published in 1899.) 

He m. at Milton, Mass., Sept. 22, 1864, Edith, dau. of Com. Robert B. 
and Rose G. Forbes, b. Mar. 4, 1843. 

CHILDREN. 

a. Robert F., b. Aug. 9, 1865 ; m. Annie R. Bowditch. Children : 

Francis Bowditch, Edith Forbes, Anna Bowditch. 

b. Alice F.j b. July 2, 1867; m. Wm. Plooper. 

c. Edith F., b. Jan. 1, 1873 ; m. Edward Cunningham. Child : 

Edward. 

d. Margaret F., b. July 8, 1876; m. Geo. T. Rice. Children: 

Margaret, Geo. T., Jr. 

e. Charles Eliot, b. Feb. 21, 1881. 

f. Mary R., b. Nov. 22, 1883. 

g. Samuel G., b. May 3, 1889; d. 

2. William Channing, b. Sept. 1, 1842; d. Feb. 8, 1884; m. Annie 

Edith Taylor of Club Orchard Spring, Ky. 

3. Edward Cranch, b. in Cincinnati, Feb. 25, 1844; A.B. Harvard 

Coll. 1866. He went to Texas and was clerk for three years 
to Alexander H. Todd, and later a partner. He went to 
Boston in 1869, was admitted to the Bar in 1872, and has 
since practised law. Pie m. June 10, 1869, Jane Sedgwick, dau. 
of Robert S. and Mary (Hathaway) Watson. Children: 
a. Thomas Nelson, b. May 6, 1870 ; A.B. Harv. Coll. 1891 ; 

m. Louisa, dau. of Charles Francis Adams. Children: 

Elliott, James Handasyd. 



124 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

b. Elliott, b. Oct. 23, 1873 ; d. 

c. James Handasyd, b. Jan. 11, 1876; A.B. Harv. Coll. 1898; 

m. Alice Mandell, dau. of Henry B. Stone. Child : Eleanor. 

d. John Forbes, b. Mar. 6, 1878; A.B. Harv. Coll. 1899. 

4. Henry Hill, b. Aug. 7, 1845. 

5. James Handasyd, b. Feb. 20, 1848; d. Dec. 3, 1889; m. Mary 

Longworth Stettinius. 

+ 234. viii. Charles Wyllys 6 , b. May 2j, 1817; d. Aug. 23, 
1833, at G. 



115. TIMOTHY 5 (Timothy 4 , Abial z , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer in 
Durham. He married, Dec. 18, 1799, Lydia, dau. of Samuel 
and Irene (Munson) Bartholomew of Northford, b. Jan. 25, 
1777 ; d. Oct. 18, i860. 

CHILDREN. 

-f- 235. i. Alexander McGilvrae 6 , b. in Middlesex Co., Conn., 
Jan. 24, 1802 ; d. at Lewis Centre, O., Mar. 19, 1861. 
236. ii. Lucy Rose 6 , b. Aug. 5, 1803; d. June 14, 1861. She 
married in Durham, Feb. 22, 1826, Erastus Jones of 
Wallingford, b. Mar. 14, 1801, in Prospect, New 
Haven Co. ; d. May 4, 1858. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Jennett Eliza, b. Mar. 2, 1827; m. first, Apr. 21, 1856, Henry 
L. Baldwin of Meriden, Conn. He d. Oct. 24, 1862. Children : 

a. Eda L. J., b. Oct. 26, i860; d. 1862. 

b. Henry L., b. Mar. 4, 1863 ; d. 1865. 

Married second, Sept. 30, 1872, James R. Mershon. He d. 
July 19, 1901. 

2. Frances Maria, b. June 18, 1828; d. Sept. 14, 1886; m. June 

17, 1862, Frederick Ives of Meriden, Conn. Children : 

a. Rosa J., b. Sept. 4, 1864; d. 1867. 

b. Nettie A., b. Jan. 8, 1867. 

c. Fannie A'., b. July 23, 1868. 

3. Henry Elliott, b. Nov. 13, 1832; m. Sept. 1872. America Becca. 

Lives (1904) at Clifton Forge, Va. 

4. Adolphus Erastus, b. Aug. 5, 1844; m. May 1869, Annie Gay. 

Child : 
a. Harry !■'... h. June 1877. Lives ( 1004) at New Haven, Conn. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 1 25 

-f 237. iii. Lucius 6 , b. July 9, 1807; d. Mar. 31, 1873. 

238. iv. Jennette 6 , b. March 2, 181 1, at Durham, Conn.; d. 
Aug. 23, 1888, at Maysville, Ky. She married Aug. 
15, 1836, William Robinson of Durham, later of 
Sharpsburg, Bath Co., Ky., b. Oct. 31, 1806; d. at 
Maysville, Ky., Apr. 16, i< 



CHILDREN. 

i. Ellen Maria, b. Apr. 22, 1837; d. Apr. 1874; m. Hon. F. B. 
Trussell. 

2. Eliot Kelly, b. July 16, 1843, at Sharpsburg, Ky. ; m. Dec. 10, 

1874, at Augusta, Kan., Mary Alice Yowell. Children: 

a. Baker Trussell, b. Nov. 8, 1875, at Benton, Kan. 

b. Ellen Imogene, b. Oct. 15, 1877, at Benton, Kan. 

3. Eugene Algernon, b. Feb. 2, 1849, at Sharpsburg, Ky. ; m. Nov. 

27, 1873, Laura Anderson Stockton ; d. Tan. 23, 1899. Children : 

a. Jeannette Elliott, b. Sept. 24, 1874; m. Rev. John C. Molloy. 

Children : Laura Stockton, Jeanette Elliott Robinson. 

b. Roberta Stockton, b. Apr. 25, 1878; m. Frank O. Barkley. 

Children : Eugene Robinson, Frank Owens, b. June 14, 1904. 

-f- 239. v. Luzerne 6 , b. Mar. 4, 1814; d. Oct. 26, 1884, at New- 
ton, Iowa. 
240. vi. Lydia Maria 6 , b. June 16, 1818, at Durham, Conn. ; d. 
June 16, 1897, at Caldwell, Kan. She married, Oct. 
6, 1844, Peter Jackson Mann, b. June 20, 1817, at 
Forest Retreat, Nicholas Co., Ky. ; d. July 29, 1901, 
at Caldwell, Kan. Lived at Warsaw, Hancock Co., 
111. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Adelaide Rebecca, b. Aug. 22, 1845, in Nicholas Co., Ky. ; 
m. Oct. 15, 1868, in Knox Co., Mo., James Jackson Browning, 
b. Aug. 20, 1847, i n Hancock Co., 111. Children : 

a. Anna Lee, b. Dec. 23, 1869, in Knox Co, Mo. ; m. William 

C. Myers. Children : Paul Browning, William Russell, 
Mary Helen. 

b. Connie May, b. Feb. 27, 1874; m. Wm. B. McKinney. 

Children : Ivan Browning, Wanna Jannita, William 
Wendell. 

2. Virgil Alexander, b. Sept. 8, 1852, at Warsaw, 111. ; farmer 

and stock raiser at Caldwell, Kan. 

3. Miriam Annette, b. Sept. 6, 1855, at Warsaw, 111. ; school 

teacher and poetess ; m. Oct. 2, 1893, a * Caldwell, Kansas, 
David Nelson Sayrs. 



126 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

116. WILLIAM ROSE 5 (Timothy*, AbiaP, Joseph-, John 1 ). 
Farmer in North Guilford, and built a "fair house" on his 
land, which was a part of the grant from the original town of 
Guilford to Joseph Eliot in 1665, and devised by him to Abial. 
(See will of Joseph Eliot, O. E. G., page 145.) He married, 
Nov. 3, 181 1, Sarah (Sally), dau. of Jonah and Hannah (Tyler) 
Clark of North Branford, b. Sept. 25, 1782; d. Feb. 8, 1851. 
For many graces of person and disposition she was known as 
"the prettiest lady in Northford," and was teacher in the village 
school, when few women essayed such a position. That she was 
well educated and accomplished much in advance of the woman 
of her time is proven by her letters, still preserved by some of 
her descendants. 

CHILDREN. 

+ 241. i. Frederick Tyler 6 , b. Aug. 15, 1812; d. Apr. 20, 1888. 
+ 242. ii. John Harvey , b. Mar. 16, 1816 ; d. Aug. 10, 1898. 
243. iii. Gustavus Rose 6 , b. July 5, 1822 ; d. Nov. 25, 1869. 

His youth and early manhood were spent at home, and 
devoted to the care of his mother, who was for many years an 
invalid. He managed, however, to secure a thorough education, 
and developed fine literary taste. He studied law at home, 
driving many miles to New Haven for recitations and exami- 
nations, which he passed with honors. He received the degree 
of Bachelor of Laws from Yale College in 1858. 

He spent some years in England as the American representa- 
tive of a manufacturing business in which he had become 
interested. Upon his return to this country he settled in New 
Haven and pursued the practice of law until his death. 

In personal appearance he was to an unusual degree of marked 
Eliot type. Over six feet in height, but well proportioned, with 
fine complexion, dark hair, straight nose, and a steady blue gray 
eye that bespoke great reserve power, he impressed all who 
met him as a man of distinct character and ability. Upon his 
decease, resolutions of respect were passed by the members of 
the New Haven County Bar. 

He married, Apr. 9, 1863, Josephine W.. daughter of Dr. 
Sheldon C. and Hannah (Stoddard) Johnson of Seymour, 
Conn. She was born Oct. 10, 1838; d. Oct. 22, 1900, and is 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. I 27 

buried beside her husband at Seymour. She was of kindly and 
charitable disposition, and was for many years a devoted mem- 
ber of Trinity Episcopal Church at Seymour. 



117. WYLLYS 5 (Timothy*, Abial 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer in 
North Guilford. He married, Feb. 19, 1823, Lucy, dau. of 
Nathan O. and Phoebe Camp of Durham, b. Dec. 1799 ; d. July 
4, 1891. 

CHILDREN. 

+ 244. i. Whitney 6 , b. Nov. 24, 1823. 

245. ii. Ruth 6 , b. Sept. 16, 1826; d. Oct. 29, 1826. 
+ 246. iii. Ellsworth 6 , b. Sept. 15, 1827. 
+ 247. iv. Harvey 6 , b. Aug. 12, 1830; d. Nov. 23, 1890. 

248. v. Laura Maria 6 , b. May 6, 1842, in North Guilford, 
Conn. ; married Apr. 3, 1867, in New York City, 
Ralph Ladd Cutter, son of Ralph Cross and Hannah 
Hurd (Ladd) Cutter, a successful merchant in New 
York City. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Laura Eliot, b. June 17, 1868, in Brooklyn; m. June 8, 1893, 

Bryan Herbert, son of Bryan Hooker and Elizabeth (Buckley) 
Smith of Brooklyn, N. Y. Child : 
a. Cyrus Porter, b. Mar. 12, 1896, in Brooklyn. 

2. Ralph Eliot, b. Jan. 4, 1870; d. Apr. 26, 1876. 

3. Miriam, b. Jan. 5, 1874; d. Feb. 19, 1874. 

4. Eliot, b. May 10, 1877; Ph.B. Yale Coll. 1901. 

5. Anna Ladd, b. Apr. 18, 1878. 

6. Guilford Eliot, b. Dec. 6, 1882 ; d. Dec. 10, 1882. 



120. SAMUEL WILLIAMS 6 (Samuel S. 5 , Aaron*, Jared*, 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer, Northampton, Montgomery Co., 
N. Y. About 1830 he removed to Penfield, Monroe Co., N. Y. 
He married, Jan. 31, 1809, Sarah (Sally), dau. of Josiah and 
Freelove (Canfield) Bierce of New Milford. She was b. Dec. 
2j, 1781 ; d. Apr. 29, 1864. After Mr. Eliot's death she married 
Clark Wymans of New London, Huron Co., O., and removed 
with her children to Lorain Co., O. In 1840 Harvey and Joseph 



128 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

came to Steuben Co., Indiana, and began carving out a home in 
the wilderness. In a few years Horace, the mother, Chauncey 
and family, John and Alonzo Sage and family came and founded 
homes. They and their descendants have for the most part con- 
tinued to reside in Steuben Co., and those who have gone else- 
where still call it home. The family were raised under the 
strictest code of morals and kindliness to each other, and as a 
result there has always existed an unusually strong tie between 
all the branches of this line. 

CHILDREN. 

+ 249. i. Chauncey Smithson 7 , b. July 6, 1810; d. Apr. 30, 

1879. 

250. ii. Horace Bierce 7 , b. Nov. 3, 181 1 ; d. Aug. 13, 1863, 

at the home of his brother Joseph in Steuben Co., 
Ind. He was a farmer. 

251. iii. Hannah Polina 7 , b. Aug. 8, 1813 ; d. 1897, in Foster, 

Ind. She married Sept. 1839, James Johnson 
McClellan of Rochester, Lorain Co., O. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Child, unnamed; d. 

2. Amelia Maria, d. 1891 : m. James Connor; had two children, 

who d. in infancy. 

3. William, d. 

4. Child, unnamed, d. 

5. Alwilda Medora, d. 1894; m. Mr. Woodbury of Danville, 111. 

Child: 
a. Fanny. No further record. 

6. Mary Jane, d. 

7. James Johnson of Foster, Ind. ; m. ; has a large family. No 

record. 

8. Lucy, m. ; d. 

252. iv. Sarah (Sally) Amanda 7 , b. Dec. 27, 1814; d. Apr. 

19, 1887, in Steuben Co., Ind.; married Jan. 1, 
1843, George Austin (born in Ireland) of Hunt- 
ington, Lorain Co., O. 

253. v. Belinda Maria 7 , b. May 9, 1816; married Mar. 27, 

1833, Isaac Vosburgh, blacksmith, of New London. 
Huron Co., O., b. Nov. 26, 1809. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 1 29 

CHILDREN. 

1. Mary Jane, b. Apr. 19, 1835, in Huntington, O. ; lived in New 

London, O. 

2. William Henry Harrison, b. in Huntington, O., Oct. 20, 1837; 

d. May 8, 1865. He served in the Civil War three years and 
a half, and died in the hospital at Newark, N. J., where he is 
buried in the "Soldiers' Plot," Fairmont Cemetery. He m. 
at Janesville, Wis., Ruth M. Warner, b. Sept. 10, 1839, in 
Sutton, Canada. Children : 

a. Charles Hiram, b. in Shopiere, Wis., Dec. 14, 1858; d. 1880. 

b. Harriet B., b. in Shopiere, Wis., July 14, 1863; m. Byron 

T. Buck. Child : Glen W. Buck. 

3. Jacob Harvey, b. Feb. 26, 1841 ; d. May 19, 1841. 

4. Melissa, b. in Huntington, O., Sept. 23, 1843; d. in New 

London, O., Nov. 23, 1895 ; m. Harry M. Phipps, Jan. 13, 1872. 

5. Child, unnamed, b. 1845 ; d. 

6. George Washington, b. June 28, 1847 ; d. May 17, 1852. 

7. Horace B., b. in New London, O., Apr. 14, 1849; d. in Mt. 

Sterling, 111., Oct. 12, 1873. 

8. Zorada Medora, b. Sept. 5, 185 1 ; d. May 31, 1852. 

+ 254. vi. Samuel Harvey 7 , b. Aug. 29, 1818; d. Sept. 8, 1895. 

255. vii. Mary Elizabeth 7 , b. May 1, 1820, at Northampton, 

N. Y. ; d. June, 1899. She married Feb. 14, 1838, 

Alonzo Blossom Sage of Homer, Medina Co., O., 

d. Sept. 11, 1869. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Freelove Maria, b. Feb. 3, 1839 ; d. Apr. 24, 1867 ; m. Oct. 2, 1856, 

Darwin Soule. Children : 

a. Freelove Mary, d. in infancy. 

b. Alonzo B., d. in infancy. 

c. David, d. in infancy. 

d. Willard D., b. June 9, 1865; m. Viola Woodworth. Child: 

Lillian Maud. 

2. Amine V. Blaker, b. June 29, 1840, in Ohio; m. June 23, 1857, 

Sylvester Marquis La Rue, b. Sept. 7, 1832, in Cayuga Co., 
N. Y. ; d. Feb. 20, 1885. Children : 

a. Minnie B., b. Nov. 21, 1859; m. first, George C. Taylor. 

Children: Pierce C, Morris L. ; m. second, Edward R. 
Walker. Child : Vernon. 

b. Aggie W., b. Sept. 15, 1863; d. 1880. 

c. Mary E. Hayes, b. Dec. 29, 1869. 

d. Ollie R., b. Mar. 15, 1871, in Steuben Co., Ind.; m. James 

Curtis Austin. Children: Mildred Imogene, Charles 
Herschel, William Sylvester. 



130 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

e Bidd Orley, b. Nov. 21, 1879. 

3. Mary Louisa, b. July 12, 1842 ; m. first, Sept. 29, 1861, David 

Soule; killed Aug. 25, 1864, in the battle around Atlanta, Ga. 
Child by first marriage : 

a. Ellen L., b. Jan. 18, 1863 ; m. first, Charles M. Young. Chil- 

dren : Roy Alonzo, Willis Milton ; m. second, Wm. T. 
Gurley of Battle Creek, Mich. 
Mary Louisa m. second, May 25, 1866, John Dotts. Children by 
second marriage : 

b. John D., b. Feb. 3, 1867; d. 1873. 

c. Mary E., b. Mar. 7, 1870; m. Sherman Cole of Angola, Ind. 

Children : Wavel, Ora, Wilma. 

d. William Elmer, b. July 18, 1875; m- Ruth A. Klock. Chil- 

dren : Lois Esther, Leon Elmo. 

e. Eva Lena, b. Apr. 1, 1877; m. Jay Swift of Hillsdale, Mich. 

Child: Oscar Don. 

f. Carl Milton, b. Dec. 21, 1884. 

4. Polly Munson, b. July 23, 1849; m. Jan. 1, 1874, James W. 

Dotts of Angola, Ind., b. Nov. 4, 1844. Children : 

a. A. J., b. Nov. 26, 1874. 

b. George Elmer, b. Aug. 12, 1876; d. 1893. 

c. Mary Ethel, b. May 25, 1878; m. Charles Wilkinson. 

d. Edna Rebecca, b. Apr. 20, 1881 ; m. Jesse Alfred Brown. 

e. Earl Elliott, b. Feb. 3, 1893. 

5. George A., d. in infancy. 

+ 256. viii. Joseph Canfield 7 , b. in Montgomery Co., N. Y., 

June 20, 1822; lives (1904) in Reading, Hillsdale 

Co., Mich. 
257. ix. William Aaron 7 , b. Sept. 1, 1826; d. in early youth 

in Northampton, N. Y. 
4- 258. x. John Harmon 7 , b. Apr. 26, 1828, in Montgomery Co., 

N. Y. ; d. Sept. 13, 1900, at Angola, Ind. 



121 WILLIAM W. G {Samuel S. 5 , Aaron 4 , Jared\ Joseph-, John 1 ). 
Farmer in Northampton, N. Y. He removed in 1821 to Ballston 
Springs, and in 1836 to Niles, Mich. He was an Elder in the 
church in both places. He married, Jan. 12, 1809, Eunice 
Thomas of Ballston, N. Y. ; d. June 24, 1854 ; buried at Niles, 
Mich. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 131 

CHILDREN. 

259. i. Eunice Harriet 7 , b. Mar. 12, 1810, in Sharon, Conn.; 
d. July 27, 1 85 1, at Niles, Mich. A Christian char- 
acter in the highest sense. She married, June 12, 
1834, Allen G. Kellogg, b. Mar. 4, 181 1, in New York. 
He resided in Niles, Mich., was an officer in the 
church and a colporteur of the Tract Society. He 
went to the war, and was supposed to have been 
killed in battle. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Caroline Eliot, b. Aug. 19, 1835; d. July 30, 1888, at Michigan 

City, Ind. She m. June 15, 1862, Thomas Dawson of Michigan 
City, Ind., b. May 2, 1836, at Alba, Scotland; d. Aug. 3, 1900. 
Children : 

a. John William, b. Jan. 18, 1864, at New Albany, Ind. ; m. Effa 

D. Harlan of Chicago, 111. 

b. Allen, d. 

c. Mary, and (d) Harriet (twins), d. 

2. William Allen, b. Dec. 20, 1841 ; died. 

3. Sarah Amanda, b. Oct. 26, 1843 ; d. July 7, 1845 ; and two others 

who died. 

-f- 260. ii. William Sidney 7 , b. Jan. 18, 181 3, in Northampton, 
N. Y. ; d. Oct. 17, 1899, at Chicago, 111.; buried at 
Niles, Mich. 
261. iii. Caroline Elizabeth 7 , b. Jan. 5, 181 5, at Northampton, 
N. Y. ; d. Mar. 24, 1890, at Michigan City, Ind. A 
woman of noble character. She married, Jan. 18, 
1842, at Milton, Cass Co., Mich., John Orr, b. Nov. 
30, 1816, in Scotland ; d. May 16, 1873, at Michigan 
City, Ind. 

CHILDREN. 

1. James William, b. May 14, 1843; d. May 27, 1862. 

2. John Sidney, b. Sept. 5, 1845, at Michigan City, Ind. ; d. May 29, 

1901. He was a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil 
War, and in private life obtained the respect of all who knew 
him. He m. Oct. 11, 1871, Emma Jane Hulbert of Ann Arbor, 
Mich., b. Sept. 9, 1846. Children : 

a. William Hulbert, b. Aug. II, 1874; ,d. in infancy. 

b. John Sidney, b. May 10, 1876 ; d. in infancy. 

3. Louisa Fanning, b. July 16, 1848; d. Oct. 21, 1849. 



132 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

4. George Coan, b. Aug. 28, 1851, at Michigan City, Ind. ; d. Feb. 

23, 1892. One of the kindest of men. He m. Dec. 2, 1880, 
Fanny Elizabeth Niemer, b. Aug. 14, 1857. Children : 

a. George Raymond, b. Mar. 28, 1886. 

b. Margaret Amelia, b. June 16, 1889. 

c. John Eliot, b. Jan. 16, 1891. 

5. Chauncey, b. Jan. 1855 ; d. May, 1855. 



124. JOHN AARON 6 {Samuel S. 5 , Aaron 4 , Jared\ Joseph 2 , 
John 1 ), of Sharon. He was at first a printer, afterwards a 
watchmaker and goldsmith. He lived in Redhook, N. Y., 
where he was an officer in the church ; also in Michigan, but 
finally returned to Sharon. He married first, June 4, 1809, 
Joanna, dau. of Joseph Bailey of Sharon, b. June, 1789; d. Jan. 
11, 1848 ; second, Nov. 8, 1848, Hannah Eliza, dau. of Benjamin 
Janes of South Canaan. She d. Dec. 17, 1864. 

CHILDREN, BY HIS FIRST WIFE. 

262. i. Anna Maria 7 , b. Sept. 8, 1810, at Sharon; d. Sept. 

30, 1884. 

She was for several years a teacher and an active and ardent 
member of the Congregational Church at Sharon. She married 
first, Sept. 12, 1833, George, son of Henry, and grandson of 
Thomas Heath of Sharon, of Hamburg, N. Y., and afterwards 
of Michigan. He lost his health, and returned to Sharon in 1840, 
traded at Gaylord's Bridge, and died Jan. 5, 1843. His widow 
taught school in Sharon, and in Eutaw, Ala., assisted by her 
daughter. She married second, Sept. 21, 1862, Henry Cowles 
of Sharon ; d. May 28, 1870. 

CHILD, BY FIRST HUSBAND. 

i. Ann Eliza, b. Aug. 24, 1837, in Michigan; d. Aug. 17, 1859, at 
Grove Hill, Ala. She was educated in Connecticut, and m. 
July 20, 1859, Mr. Williams of Alabama. 

263. ii. Margaret Elizabeth 7 , b. June 25, 1812, at Redhook, 

N. Y. ; d. Sept. 18. 1846. 

She taught school for several years with great success in 
Sharon, in Indiana, and in Michigan. She married, Jan. 1839, 
Robert H. Getty of Sharon, 111., b. Feb. 28, 1810. Schools being 
very much needed, she established one in her own house. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 133 

CHILDREN. 

i. Frances Maria, b. July 5, 1840; m. 1867, Horace R. Fletcher of 
Geneseo, 111. Child : 
a. Horace Elliott, b. 1870, in Brooklyn, N. Y. ; d. 1903. 

2. Ann Eliza, b. Jan. 31, 1842, at Sharon, Conn.; m. Sept. 23, 1869, 

Philando Curtis Langdon of Geneseo, 111., b. July 14, 1836, at 
Monterey, Mass. Children : 

a. Robert Getty, b. Nov. 22, 1870, at Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Columbia 

Law School 1892 ; m. at Montclair, N. J., Mary A. Marvin. 
Children : Katherine, Florence. 

b. Camilla Louise, b. Mar. 10, 1872 ; d. at Naples, Italy, in 1898. 

c. Frederick Harmon, b. Nov. 1, 1873. 

d. Annie Elliott, b. at Monterey, Mass., June 30, 1879 ; A.B. 

Vassar 1901 ; m. Edwin Lee Allen, Jr., of Brooklyn, N. Y. 

e. Philip Cuyler, b. Mar. 26, 1881 ; Princeton 1902. 

3. Robert Eliot, b. Apr. 1845 ; d. Aug. 4, 1845. 

4. Child, b. Sept. 16, 1846; d. next day. 

+ 264. iii. John Williams 7 , b. Oct. 18, 1814, at Sharon; d. 

June 17, 1888. 
265. iv. Mary Amelia 7 , b. Dec. 20, 1816, at Sharon; d. Dec. 

16, 1819. 
4- 266. v. Henry 7 , b. Feb. 27, 1819; d. May 11, 1868. 
+ 267. vi. Joseph Bailey 7 , b. July 21, 1821, at Sharon; d. July 

4, 1898. 
+ 268. vii. Samuel Worcester 7 , b. Apr. 4, 1824, at Sharon ; d. 

May 11, 1868, at Yonkers, N. Y. 
269. viii. George Webster 7 , b. Sept. 17, 1826, at Sharon; d. 

Feb. 13, 1832. 
-f- 270. ix. Charles Frederick 7 , b. Dec. 27, 1830, at Sharon ; d. 

Mar. 13, 1859. 
271. x. Frances Amelia 7 , b. Aug. 27, 1835, at Sharon, Conn. ; 

married May 23, 1870, Rev. Edwin Lines Janes, b. 

Apr. 27, 1807, at Sheffield, Mass. 

CHILD. 

i. Amelia Elliott, b. May 23, 1872, at Flushing, L. I.; m. Oct. 10, 
1893, Wm. C. Roberts. Child : 

a. Ruth Elliott, b. Nov. 6, 1898, at Melrose, Mass. 



126. JOSEPH BENJAMIN 6 (Samuel S. 5 , Aaron*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , 
John 1 ). Farmer in Northampton, N. Y. He married, in 1814, 
Hannah, dau. of Deacon Samuel Waldo of Chatham, N. Y. 



134 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

CHILDREN. 

272. i. Hannah Cornelia 7 , b. Jan. 16, 1817, at Sharon; mar- 

ried Feb. 10, 1839, Sylvester Reynolds of Chatham. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Gilbert E., b. Feb. 2, 1841. 

2. Albert N., b. Nov. 26, 1846 ; d. Aug. 1847. 

3. Ira, b. July 8, 1849. 

4. Hannah C, b. June 28, 1852. 

273. ii. Samuel Waldo 7 , b. Sept. 21, 1819. 



128. ISAAC (Samuel S. 5 , Aaron*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). 
Farmer in Pittsfield, Washtenaw Co., Mich., whither he went 
with his mother in 183 1. In 1853 he removed to Ann Arbor, 
where he held many places of trust in the church and town. 
He married at Saline, Mich., March 11, 1834, Sarah, dau. of 
Arba Hurd of Ann Arbor, b. Jan. 28, 1816, in Amenia, Dutchess 
Co., N. Y. ; d. Sept. 29, iJ 



CHILDREN. 

274. i. Daughter 7 , died at birth, Apr. 1835. 

275. ii. Harriet Ann 7 , b. June 7, 1838, at Ann Arbor, Mich. ; 

d. Sept. 8, 1899. She married Dec. 31, i860, Dr. P. 
C. Lacey of Laceyville, Pa., later of Aberdeen, S. D. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Clarence Eliot, b. Dec. 30, 1861. He is a druggist in Aberdeen, 

S. D. (1904). 
2. Mytie Eliot, b. Mar. 12, 1863 ; d. Jan. 28, 1891. 

276. iii. -Samuel Hurd 7 , b. May 13, 1840; d. May 21, 1841. 

277. iv. Elizabeth (Betsey) Maria 7 , b. Nov. 21, 1842, at Ann 

Arbor, Mich. Lives (1905) at Ann Arbor. 
+ 278. v. Samuel Hurd 7 , b. Mar. 7, 1846, at Ann Arbor, Mich. 
279. vi. Sarah 7 , b. Sept. 1, 1846, at Ann Arbor, Mich. ; married 
Nov. 22, 1870, Charles Ely Latimer of Bloomfield, 
Conn. 

CHILD. 

1. Florence Eliot, b. June 9, 1875. Graduated at the Lake Forest 
University in 1896; Musical Conservatory 1897. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 1 35 

. HORACE WILLIAM 6 (William 5 , Aaron 4 , Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , 
John 1 ), Goshen, Orange Co., N. Y. He kept a drug store and 
the post-office. In 1836 he was appointed first Judge of the 
Court of Common Pleas, was Justice of the Peace from 1832 to 
i860, and a director in the Orange Co. Mutual Fire Ins. Co., 
and continued in this office till October, 1863. He was six feet 
two inches tall. He married, about 1825, Charlotte, dau. of Col. 
David M. and Keziah Westcott, b. Apr. 16, 1804 ; d. at Goshen, 
N. Y., Jan. 15, 1880. (David M. Westcott m. Keziah Gale, 
who was probably a descendant of Abel Gale of Jamaica.) (See 
Hannah 25.) 

CHILDREN, BESIDES THREE WHO DIED YOUNG. 

280. i. Ethelinda 7 , b. Jan. 13, 1827; d. Oct. 11, 1879. She 
married Mar. 5, 1846, Wm. H. Beers, son of 
Cyrenius Beers of New York, b. Apr. 12, 1823; d: 
Mar. 21, 1880. Both buried at Goshen, N. Y. 

CHILD. 

i. Cyrenius Eliot, b. Mar. 5, 1847; lives (1904) in Philadelphia. 

"Mrs. Wm. H. Beers ("Ethel Lynn"), whose new volume, "All Quiet 
Along the Potomac, and Other Poems," had just been published, died a 
few days ago in Orange, N. J. She was for many years a valued con- 
tributor to the New York Ledger. She possessed an uncommonly 
cheerful and sunny nature, but even in her cheerfulness she was subject 
to strange premonitions, one of which was that as soon as she printed her 
poems she should die." — New York Ledger, Nov. 15, 1879. 

Extract from a sermon delivered at a service in memory of 
Mrs. Beers : 

"On both sides her ancestors were of Puritan stock and remarkable for 
their strong religious convictions. This fact had a ruling influence over 
the life of our sister. Who can tell what a power on human destiny is 
the entail of a moral character embalmed in records of heroic deeds. 'A 
good man leaveth an inheritance unto his children's children.' There is 
force in the purpose not to dishonor our shield. 

Mrs. Beers was especially fond of tracing her pedigree back to Eliot 
the Indian Apostle, whose Bible now untranslatable by mortal man (?) 
lies on the shelves of Cambridge, and whose wonderful success in the 
conversion of the Natick Indians was celebrated in that famous letter 
written by the first President of the College to Dr. Leusden of Utrecht— a 
letter translated into five different languages, and of which it was said, 
9 



136 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

'It affords great consolation to all souls who thirst after holiness and are 
inflamed with a zeal ibr the glory of God.' 

In one of her poems Mrs. Beers describes John Eliot as he stood on the 
quarter deck of the good ship 'Lyon' at the moment when she dropped 
her anchor in the Boston harbor : 

' He did not know 

He saw his kingdom stretched before him ; 
His crown beneath New England's snow. 
Ah ! how my pulse leaps to remember 
More than two hundred years have gone 
And still within this wrist-vein purple. 
That blessed Pilgrim blood flows on.' 

That his blood did flow on in the veins of that delicate wrist is evident 
from what Cotton Mather says in his Magnalia : 'He that will write of 
Eliot must write of charity or else "say nothing. His charity was a star 
of the first magnitude in the bright constellation of his virtues. With 
marvellous alacrity did he embrace every opportunity of relieving others. 
He could not persuade himself that he had anything but what he gave 
away. He had a heart full of good wishes and a mouth full of kind 
blessings for all.' These words, written 200 years ago, are as applicable 
to many of his descendants, as they were to the man of God of whom 
they were penned. 

From her girlhood Mrs. Beers drew attention for more than ordinary 
powers of composition. When in school her teacher felt great pride in 
her. At one time, when a prize had been offered to the first class, this 
teacher found herself obliged to say, 'I cannot give the prize to any 
among you, for that child there upon the lowest form has done far 
better.' 

In later life this talent displayed itself in the increasing value and 
beauty of her poetic productions, the collections of which — what she her- 
self so modestly calls, 'a handful of white clover and daisies' — fixes her 
name on the permanent list of American authors. 

Mrs. Beers cherished the warmest attachment to all the people of God. 
Especially was her church relation most sacred. The sweetest spiritual 
experiences of her life were enjoyed in our assemblies. From the first 
she was indefatigable and untiring in her efforts to build up this church. 
Never pastor had more devoted communicant. Her seat was near the 
pulpit. Always was her pleasant, thoughtful face turned upward toward 
the speaker. Always was felt that silent sympathy that knits one to an 
appreciative listener. Always some kind word or tender personal inquiry 
followed, with a warm handshake, the service. 

Nor was she only the churchwoman. She was the private friend as 
well. Admirably did she merit the epithet of the good neighbor. A dear 
brother said to me on the ferry-boat but a day or two ago, 'When my 
dead baby was sick, she came in at dusk, took the child in her arms, and 
held it till daybreak.' Said another, bursting into tears, 'She has been 
a mother to me ever since I came to this town.' " 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 137 

From the New Englander, New Haven, Conn., Mar. 1880: 

"All quiet along the Potomac." The first line of the little poem 
which has been given as a title to this whole collection, will recall to the 
minds of many one of the most affecting of the shorter poems which 
were inspired by the sad events of the Civil War, near twenty years ago. 
But these are not the only lines which will be recognized as familiar. In 
the days when the thoughts of all were daily following the blue coats 
in the far distant field, there were few who read "Company K." or 
"On the Shores of Tennessee" without emotion. Few can read them 
now unmoved. The author, "Ethel Lynn Beers," has not neglected 
during all these subsequent years the talent of which she gave then such 
satisfactory proof, and in these pages will be found the evidence of a 
poetic insight, and a skill of versification on other themes, which make the 
collection one of far more than ordinary interest. 

Her publications were "General Frankie," a story for little 
folks; i2mo, pp. 149; "The Burnt Overcoat," i2mo, pp. 70; 
"All Quiet Along the Potomac, and Other Poems," published 
in 1879; i2mo, pp. 352. 

In 1864 a book was published in New York entitled "A Selec- 
tion of War Lyrics," with illustrations on wood by F. O. C. 
Darley. Of the seven poems deemed worthy of a place in this 
publication, two are by Mrs. Beers, "All Quiet Along the 
Potomac" and "On the Shores of Tennessee." 

281. ii. Charlotte 7 , b. 1829; d. Jan. 24, 1893, at Orange, 

N. J. She married July 19, 1854, Marshall B. S. 
Ellinger. 

CHILD. 

1. William Elliott, b. Feb. 21, 1856; d. Aug. 7, 1869; buried in 
Goshen. 

282. iii. Catharine 7 , b. 1833 ; living in 1904. 

283. iv. Charles Goodrich 7 , of Goshen, b. 1836; living in 

1904; Justice of the Peace 1871-79; Chief Engineer 
of the Fire Department, 1880; Trustee of School; 
Elder of the Presbyterian Church and director in the 
Goshen Savings Bank. He married Lavinia Strong 
of Goshen. 

284. v. Sarah Westcott 7 , b. 1842; married first, July 19, 

1872, at Warwick, Orange Co., N. Y., James E. 
Dill, d. Oct. 1872; married second, Mar. 24, 1902, 
John Wilberforce Carlin of New York. 

285. vi. Henrietta 7 (Duer), b. 1849; d - Feb - 2 4> l8 95- 



138 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

134. HENRY WILLIAM (William 5 , Aaron 4 , Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , 
John 1 ). Merchant in New York and later pharmacist and 
chemist in Elmira, N. Y. He married, Feb. 1, 1844, Sarah 
Wickham, dau. of Edward and Elizabeth (Tooker) Hulse. 
She was b. Oct. 30, 1824, near Goshen, N. Y. ; d. Sept. 15, 
1878. 

286. i. Sarah Elizabeth 7 , b. Feb. 7, 1845, at Goshen, N. Y. 
She married Oct. 12, 1864, Charles Oscar Durland, 
b. Apr. 6, 1839; d. Jan. 19, i< 



CHILD. 

I. Grace Eliot, b. Feb. II, 1874; m. June 16, 1897, Frederick Eugene 
Westlake, b. Nov. 21, 1869. Child : 
a. Frederick Eliot, b. Nov. 3, 1900. 

287. ii. Henry William 7 , b. July 16, 1849, at Elmira, N. Y. 

He is a druggist in Elmira. 

288. iii. William Hoffman 7 , b. at Elmira, Aug. 27. 1850; d. 

Oct. 1, 1867, at Owego, N. Y. 



136. HENRY 6 (Aaron 5 , Aaron*, Jared*, Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Ste. 
Genevieve, Mo. He married Jan. 31, 1813, Mary Lewis (165), 
daughter of Jared Eliot of Killingworth. He was commander 
of a steamboat on the Mississippi river, took yellow fever and 
died on the passage up from New Orleans. He was a man of 
indomitable energy of character. 

CHILDREN. 

289. i. Charles Augustus 7 , b. Oct. 28, 1813 ; d. Dec. 5, 1813. 

290. ii. Clarissa 7 , b. at Ste. Genevieve, Feb. 8, 181 5 ; d. at 

New Orleans, Mar. 1847; buried in New Iberia, 
La. She married in 1835 Roswell Beebe of Little 
Rock, Ark., b. Dutchess Co., N. Y., Dec. 22, 1795 ; 
died New York, Sept. 21, 1856. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Roswell, b. July 6, 1837; d. June, 1864; m. Nov. 29, i860, Eliza 
Tucker. Children : 

a. Eliza Clarissa, d. 

b. Hartwell, d. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 1 39 

2. Mary Frances, d. young. 

3. Frangois G., d. young. 

4. Emma Clarissa, b. July 21, 1841 ; m. May 8, 1866, Judge Joseph 

W. Martin of Little Rock, Ark. He died Dec. 25, 1904. 

5. Anna Mary Ashley, b. Mar. 17, 1843 ; d. young. 

6. Cora Frances, b. at Little Rock, Ark., Feb. 23, 1845 ; d. Dec. 28, 

1881 ; m. Oct. 26, 1869, John William Faust, b. at Graham, 
N. C, 1829. Children: 

a. Katharine Clarissa, b. July 28, 1871. 

b. Emma Beebe, b. Sept. 13, 1872. 

c. John William, b. July 4, 1874; m. Naomi Rogers. Children: 

Marguerite, Frances Rogers, Cora Florence. 

d. Frances Eliot, b. May 19, 1876. 

e. Cora Clapp, b. Oct. 4, 1877 ) d. 1882. 

f. Roswell Beebe, b. Nov. 19, 1878. 

g. Henry Eliot, b. Apr. 4, 1880. 
All b. in Little Rock, Ark. 

7. Augusta Gilbert, b. Sept. 1846; d. young. 

291. iii. Mary Lewis 7 , b. at Ste. Genevieve, Jan. 18, 1818; died 
Feb. 11, 1873 ; married Sept. 9, 1837, Leon De Lassus 
of Perryville, son of Governor DeLassus of Mo. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Mary Matilda, b. May 23, 1839; m. Sept. 1, 1857, Francis Rice. 

Children : 

a. Francis L., b. July 2, 1858; d. Aug. 15, 1866. 

b. James R., b. Mar. 20, i860 ; d. Apr. 7, i860. 

c. Mary M., b May 19, 1861 ; d. Apr. 3, 1874. 

d. Laurence H., b. Mar. 28, 1863 ; d. Apr. 18, 1872. 

e. Charles J., b. Mar. 4, 1865 ; m. Dec. 7, 1899, Katherine Hagar. 

f. Francis L., b. Jan. 1, 1867; m. Oct. io, 1893, Zora Binz. 

Children: Mary E., b. Sept. 21, 1894; Henry William, b. 
Nov. 14, 1896; Leon F., b. Sept. 3, 1899. 

g. Mary A., b. July 1, 1869; d. Aug. 31, 1870. 

h. Mary Cora, b. Mar. 5, 1871 ; m. Sept. 2, 1890, John J. 
Schimmiert. Children: Charles J., b. June 11, 1891 ; 
Reginald R, b. Feb. 7, 1893; Richard E., b. Jan. 8, 1895; 
Irene M., b. Apr. 30, 1897; Cora M., b. Oct. 21, 1901. 

2. Mary L., b. Sept. 6, 1841 ; m. first, Charles C. Brown ; second, 

James Rice. 

3. Elliott L., b. Nov. 16, 1843 ; d. Feb. 9, 1867. 

4. Louis C, b. Jan. 1, 1846. 

5. Caroline Emily, b. Mar. 3, 1851 ; m. Sept. 6, 1871, Wm. P. 

Faherty. Children : 
a. Mary M., b. Feb. 13, 1873. 



14° DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

b. Leon P., b. Mar. 17, 1875 ; m. Nov. 20, 1900, Teresa Bleckle. 

Child: Iola B., b. Aug. 31, 1901. 

c. Linette /., b. July 21, 1878; m. May 26, 1898, Louis J. Mat- 

tingly. Child : Kathleen M., b. Feb. 22, 1899. 

d. William IV., b. Aug. 31, 1880. 

e. Blanche C, b. Aug. 18, 1882. 

6. Mary Clara, b. Apr. 3, 1856; d. June 24, 1898; m. Oct. 19, 1879, 

Dr. Robert C. Waters. Children : 

a. Robert D., b. Nov. 8, 1880. 

b. Mary Elma, b. Nov. 13, 1882 ; d. June 18, 1889. 

c. Leon W., b. Mar. 26, 1885 ; d. June 20, 1889. 

d. Bernardo C, b. Apr. 27, 1887. 

e. Mary Zita, b. May II, 1890. 

7. Mary Leon, b. Apr. 3, 1858. 

8. Mary Louise, b. Oct. 20, 1861 ; d. Aug. 12, 1862. 

292. iv. Charles Jared 7 , b. Mar. 26, 1819; dead. 

293. v. Caroline Amelia 7 , b. Mar. 22, 182 1. She married 

David Fulton of Philadelphia. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Isabel, b. 1848; d. 

2. Henry Ashley, b. 1852; m., has six children. 

3. Clara, b. 1853 ; m. Jack Leslie of New York. 

4. Mary Ashley, b. 1857; m. Mr. Morris of Philadelphia, and has 

three children. [No further record obtainable.] 

294. vi. Henry Austin 7 , b. Sept. 7, 1822; d. Mar. 15, 1823. 



143. CHARLES WATKINS 6 (Benjamin*, Aaron*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , 
John 1 ). He married, Nov. 30, 1840, Francenia Wynkoop. 

CHILDREN. 

295. i. Edward Benjamin 7 , b. Nov. 24, 1841 ; was in the 

army. 

296. ii. William Hkxdf.rson 7 , b. May 23, 1844; d. Nov. 15, 

1863. He was in the army. 

297. iii. Charlks W. 7 , b. Oct. 18, 1846. 
No further record obtainable. 




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DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 141 

148. HOMER 6 (John , Nathan 4 , Jared*, Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer, 
storekeeper, and lumberman, Lawrenceville, Tioga Co., Pa. He 
married, Dec. 20, 1845, M rs - Hannah Clark of New York State, 
who died Aug. 18, 1881. 

CHILDREN. 

298. i. Oscar H. 7 , of Haneyville, Clinton Co., Pa., b. Nov. 14, 
1846; d. May 17, 1895. 
+ 299. ii. Charles Lucius 7 , b. May 8, 1848. 

300. iii. Mary Janette 7 , b. June 7, 1852, at Lawrenceville, Pa. ; 
married Nov. 17, 1870, at Jersey Mills, Pa., Elijah 
Callahan, lumber dealer and farmer. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Cora M. B., b. Aug. 17, 1871, at Jersey Mills, Pa.; m. Sept. 9, 
1890, Fred J. Weaver.' He was b. Apr. 19, 1864. Children : 

a. Florence, b. Mar. 19, 1896; d. 1896. 

b. Elijah J., b. Sept. 11, 1899, at Caldwell, Pa. 

c. Mary Lcona, b. June 16, 1902, at Haneyville, Pa. 

d. Anna May, b. Feb. 18, 1904. 

2. William H., b. Dec. 15, 1873; m. Maria Packard, Sept. 1895. 
Child : 
a. Mary Ethel, b. July 3, 1896. 



150. JOHN 6 (John 5 , Nathan 4 , Jared z , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer, 
Vermilionville, Lasalle Co., 111. He married first, July 30, 
1845, Fidelia S., dau. of Zebina Orcott of Rutland, Vt., after- 
wards of Rutland, Pa. She was a school teacher in Tioga 
Village. They removed, with her mother's family, to Bristol, 
Kendall Co., 111., where she died April 17, 1846, aged 23, without 
living issue. He married second, Feb. 22, 1848, Sarah, dau. of 
John Clark, who in 1839 removed from Grafton Co., N. H., 
to Vermilionville. Sarah was b. Oct. 10, 1821, in Grafton Co., 
N. H. ; d. Jan. 25, 1890. 

children. 

+ 301. i. William Augustus 7 , b. Nov. 25, 1848. 

+ 302. ii. Homer 7 , b. Sept. 20, 1850, at Vermilionville, 111. 

303. iii. John 7 , b. Feb. 21, 1853; d. Mar. 16, 1856. 

304. iv. Justin 7 , b. Oct. 4, 1855. 



142 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

+ 305. v. Arthur 7 , b. Sept. 13, 1857. 

306. vi. Son 7 , b. Dec. 16, 1859; d. June 1, i860. 
+ 307. vii. Elmer E. 7 , b. June 2, 1861, at Vermilionville, 111; d. 
Feb. 18, 1892. 

308. viii. Henry H. 7 , b. Jan. 23, 1863 ; d. Aug. 25, 1863. 

309. ix. Sarah 7 , b. May 5, 1864, at Vermilion, 111. ; married 

Aug. 12, 1884, John Simeon Mugg, b. Dec. 26, 
18 — , in Owen Co., Ind. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Arthur James, b. Dec. 8, 1888. 
2. Sarah Katherine, b. Jan. 23, 1891. 



151. WILLIAM FARRAND 6 (Matthew 5 , Nathan*, Jared 3 , 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Merchant, Otto, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. He 
married first, April 3, 1830, Hannah Maria, dau. of John Brown 
of Guilford, Chenango Co., N. Y., and widow of David P. Eliot 
of Otto, N. Y. She was b. June, 1807 ; d. Sept. 4, 1839. He 
married second, Oct. 21, 1840, Ellen, dau. of Dr. Elisha John- 
son of Otto, N. Y. She was b. Oct. 5, 1819; d. Sept. 28, 1899. 

children, by first wife. 

310. i. Augustus Barney 7 , b. Jan. 8, 1835 ; d. Jan. 10, 1836. 

311. ii. Franklin Frederick 7 , b. Oct. 28, 1836; d. Oct. 10, 

1898. He was in business in Syracuse, N. Y. 
He married Dec. 25, 1877, Lina Storms of Port 
Byron, N. Y. 

CHILDREN, BY SECOND WIFE. 

312. iii. Ellen Maria 7 , b. Apr. 26, 1844. 

313. iv. Matthew Griswold 7 , b. Dec. 14, 1844. He is gen- 

eral manager of the U. S. Edge Tool Co. of Catta- 
raugus, N. Y. He married May 23, 1871, Martha, 
dau. of State (N. Y.) Senator John P. Darling (b. 
Feb. 25, 1815; d. June 17, 1882) and Abiah J. 
Darling (b. Feb. 18, 1813; d. Feb. 15. 1889).. 

314. v. William Farrand 7 , b. Feb. 8, 1848; d. Dec. 31, 

1884. He married June 8, 1880, Louisa Kelsey 
of Columbus, O. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 1 43 

-j- 315. vi. Burdett Johnson 7 , b. July 5, 1854. 

316. vii. Emmons Jewett 7 , b. Apr. 12, 1858; d. Sept. 11, 1870. 

317. viii. Elmer Elisha 7 , b. Nov. 13, i860; d. Nov. 13, 1861. 



152. MATTHEW G. 6 (Matthew 5 , Nathan*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , 
John 1 ). Merchant in New Haven; at one time President of 
the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co. ; member of the New Haven 
Colony Historical Society ; life director of the General Hospital 
Society of Connecticut in 1876; chosen alderman and judge at 
the annual meetings of New Haven in 1850 and 1851. He was 
a man of prominence and filled many positions of trust. He 
married first, Oct. 1836, Mary Ann, dau. of William Brintnall of 
New Haven, Conn. She was b. Apr. 17, 1812; d. 1865. He 
married second, July 5, 1870, Frances H. Bulkley of New 
Haven, Conn. She d. Sept. 14, 1891, at Waterbury. 

children, by first wife. 

. 318. i. Charles 7 , b. Aug. 1837 ; d. Aug. 1837. 

319. ii. Rosalia 7 , b. July, 1839; d. Feb. 1846. 

320. iii. Frederick 7 , b. Mar. 1845 > d. Mar. 1870. 

321. iv. Theodore 7 , b. ; d. in infancy. 



157. JAMES GUERNSEY 6 (Nathan 5 , Nathan*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , 
John 1 ). He graduated at Hamilton Coll., N. Y., in 1823. He 
was a broker and agent, and lived in Mobile, Ala., New York 
City, and Catskill, N. Y., where he is buried. He married, June 
3, 1840, Charlotte Frances Hammill (O'Callaghan), b. in 
Dublin, Ireland, Jan. 12, 1819; d. in New York City, Dec. 
20, 1877. 

children. 

322. i. Mary Murdock 7 , b. May, 1842, in Mobile, Ala. ; d. 

in infancy. 

323. ii. Adele Sera 7 , b. 1847 ; d. Jan. 3, 1889. 



144 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

160. DANIEL 6 (Richard J. 5 , Nathan*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ) . A 
successful farmer at Poland, Ohio. He married, Jan . 1816, 
Elizabeth Stanley of Poland. 

CHILDREN. 

+ 324. i. Jared Kirtland 7 , b. June 9, 1817 ; d. Dec. 1, 1890. 
+ 325. ii. Oscar Fitzallan 7 , b. June 5, 1819; d. Aug. 25, 1893. 
326. iii. Eliza 7 , married Mr. Taylor of Philadelphia, a man of 
prominence. 

CHILD. 

I. Anna. 



161. HORACE 6 (Richard J. 5 , Nathan 4 , Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). 
Farmer near Poland, O. A man of worth and consequence in 
the community. He married first Hannah Chamberlain of 
Poland. He married second, Mar. 1, 1831, Isabella Rose 
Justice of Poland. She died June 30, 1838. He married third, 
Sept. 7, 1838, Elizabeth Justice. 

children, by second wife. 

327. i. Johanna 7 , b. Nov. 23, 1832 ; d. Jan. 28, 1844. 

328. ii. Robert 7 , b. Feb. 3, 1834; d. Feb. 16, 1834. 

329. iii. John 7 , b. Feb. 2, 1835. [Married and has a family, 

but has sent no record.] 

330. iv. Emily 7 , b. Jan. 4, 1837. She married Mar. 4, 1856, 

Seth Brockway, a farmer of Orangeville, O. 

CHILD. 

i. May, b. Dec. 14, 1857; m. Nov. 28, 1878, J. E. Wade of Orange- 
ville, O. Children: 

a. Donna C, b. Dec. 19, 1879; m. June 7, 1900, R. N. Fell of 

Salem, Mercer Co., Pa. Child: Mildred. 

b. Clifford B., b. Aug. 15, 1881. 

c. Seth R., b. Oct. 31, 1896. 

331. v. Isabella 7 , b. June 23, 1838. She married, Feb. 8, 

1865, Joseph Haas of Poland, a farmer. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Robert E., b. Feb. 7, 1867; m. Oct. 1. 1893. Margaret Jones. 
They live (1904) at Youngstown, O. Children: 
a. Mabel, b. Apr. 9, 1895. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 145 

b. Erma, b Aug. 1, 1897. 

c. Myron, b. July 15, 1898. 

d. Leona, b. Dec. 2, 1901. 

e. Lida, b. Dec. 4, 1902. 

2. Frances, b. Dec. 19, 1869; m. Nov. 4, 1886, Henry E. Mentzer 

of North Lima, O. Children : 

a. Edith, b. June 4, 1889. 

b. Horace, b. Dec. 3, 1892. 

c. Lola, b. Apr. 10, 1895. 

3. Horace Burt, b. Apr. 18, 1871 ; m. June 22, 1896, Jennie Lyons. 

He is a car inspector at Youngstown, O. Children: 

a. Carson, b. Mar. 15, 1897. 

b. Raymond, b. Dec. 7, 1903. 

4. Mary, b. Apr. 24, 1873; m. Oct. 19, 1893, Henry Hartman of 

Poland. Children : 

a. Horace, b. Feb. 1, 1895. 

b. Florence, b. Aug. 10, 1897. 

c. Mason, b. Apr. 4, 1899. 

5. Edna, b. May 23, 1875; m. Dec. 26, 1894, Charles Smith, of 

Struther, O. Children : 

a. Freda, b. June 21, 1896. 

b. Ruby, b. Aug. 4, 1898. 

c. Clifford, b. Aug. 9, 1899. 

d. Roth, b. June 22, 1901. 

6. Lida, b. Mar. 16, 1878; m. Dec. 24, 1903, Francis J. Somers, 

a merchant of Poland. 



CHILDREN, BY THIRD WIFE. 

+ 332. vi. Robert Justice 7 , b. July 14, 1839. 

333. vii. Catharine 7 , b. Feb. 23, 1841 ; d. Mar. 7, 1887. She 
married, Oct. 4, 1864, William Reed of Pittsburg, 
Pa. He was a merchant, but has now (1904) 
retired. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Frank Eliot, b. Feb. II, 1868; d. May 24, 1872. 

2. Emma Maud, b. Apr. 12, 1874; d. Feb. 21, 1899. 

3. Edda Pearl, b. July 22, 1876; m. Oct. 15, 1903, James A. Burke 

of Pittsburg. 

4. Mary Blanche, b. Mar. 9, 1878. 

5. Ray Eliot, b. Dec. 8, 1880 ; m. July 9, 1903, Carrie Louise Luebbe. 

They live (1904) in Pittsburg. 



146 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

163. RICHARD JACKSON Jr. 6 (Richard J. 5 , Nathan*, Jared 3 , 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He moved to Champion, O., where he was a 
farmer, and an Elder in the Presbyterian Church. He married. 
Feb. 1836, Lucinda McCombs of Poland. She died May 28, 
1877, at Warren, O. 

CHILDREN. 

334. i. Sarah Johanna 7 , b. July 30, 1839. She married, Apr. 

18, 1876, Lyman S. Cline of Niles, O., d. Nov. 10, 
1 90 1. He was a merchant, and an elder in the 
Presbyterian Church. 

335. ii. Julia 7 , b. Apr. 11, 1843. She married, Apr. 18, 1865, 

Samuel Horace Pew, a manufacturer at Warren, O. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Kirtland Eliot, b. Apr. 23, 1866. He is (1904) with the Monarch 

Electric Co. of Warren, O. He m. July 29, 1897, Nettie L. 
Thayer of Warren. Children : 

a. Marion, b. July 20, 1898. 

b. Richard Kirtland, b. Mar. 25, 1903. 

2. Adelaide L., b. Jan. 19, 1871. 

3. Frederic Cline, b. May 28, 1875. He is a manufacturer at Steu- 

benville, O. ; m. July 29, 1897, Donna Smith of Youngstown, O. 
Children : 

a. Julia Caroline, b. Aug. 23, 1899. 

b. Walter Eliot, b. Jan. 3, 1901. 



171. EDWARD GREGORY 6 (Richard 5 , Jared 4 , Jared 3 , Joseph-, 
John 1 ), Washington City He was in the United States Army 
as second lieutenant, 4th Infantry, 1838 ; first lieutenant, Nov. 
29, 1844; captain, Jan. 1, 1848; captain and quartermaster, 
Mar. 3, 1847; resigned 1848, and died on his way to California 
with funds to organize there the quartermaster's department. 
He married, Aug. 29, 1848, Asenath M. Miller of Washington 
City. 

CHILD. 

336. i. Edward Gregory 7 , b. June 12, 1849. He is dead, leav- 
ing a widow and children. 
No further record obtainable. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 147 

174. LYNDE 6 (Rufus 5 , Jared i , Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Printer 
and editor, of Pittsburg, Pa. Lived also in Washington, D.C. 
He married first, in 1829, Emma Clark, of Washington. He 
married second, Jane Dyke of Manchester, England, who died 
in 1847. He married third, Sept. 18, 1848, Jane, dau. of 
William Robinson of Bloomsburgh, Columbia Co., Pa. She 
was b. Jan. 13, 1819; graduated at Steubenville (O.) Ladies' 
Seminary. 

CHILDREN, BY FIRST WIFE. 

337. i. Jonathan Lay 7 , d. in infancy at Washington, D. C. 

338. ii. Henry Clay 7 , b. Apr. 18, 1831 ; d. Apr. 16, 1893. 

Clerk in the Navy at Washington, D. C. 



181. CHARLES AUGUSTUS 6 (Augustus 5 , Jared*, Jared % , 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Carpenter and farmer. Lived in Western- 
port, Md., until 1857, when he moved to Ohio. In 1869 he 
located a homestead on the Little Blue River, Thayer Co., Neb. 
In 1888 he moved to Hebron, Neb., and later lived with his 
daughter in Fairbury, Neb., and with his son in California, 
where he is buried at Round Valley, Mendocino Co. He mar- 
ried first, Feb. 5, 1846, at Baltimore, Md., Eliza Jane Swain. 
She was b. June 18, 1826, at Newport, Del. ; d. June 27, 1856. 
He married second, in 1859, at Athens, O., Eunice Pemelia 
Polter, b. Apr. 27, 1827, in New York; d. Mar. 1897, at 
Hebron, Neb. 

children, by first wife. 

339. i. Mary Amanda 7 , b. Dec. 31, 1846, at Whitehaven, Va. ; 

d. Feb. 22, 1847. 

340. ii. John Augustus 7 , b. June 12, 1848, at Baltimore, 

Md. ; d. Apr. 26, 185 1. 

341. iii. Maria Araminta 7 , b. Feb. 25, 1850, at Baltimore, 

Md. She married Apr. 18, 1872, at Meridian, 
Neb., H. M. Ryburn. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Maud, b. Sept. 29, 1873; m. May 20, 1895, H. A. Jarvis. 
2. Husfert S., b. Jan. 31, 1874; d. May 17, 1874. 



148 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

342. iv. Harriet Virginia 7 , b. Nov. 17, 1851, at Westernport, 

Va. ; d. Sept. 30, 1872. 

343. v. Richard Harreton 7 , b. Sept. 10, 1854, at Western- 

port, Md. Farmer and stock-raiser. He has lived 
in Kansas, Nebraska and California. For the last 
fifteen years has lived in the neighborhood of Bear 
Valley, Tchachapi, Kern Co., Cal. He m. Oct. 22, 
1899, Mrs. Marguerette Williams. 

344. vi. Charles Augustus 7 , b. June 4, 1856 ; d. Oct. 4, 1856. 

CHILD, BY SECOND WIFE. 

345. vii. Charles Gustavus 7 , b. June 21, 1861, in Athens Co., 

O. ; d. Oct. 13, 1888, at Hebron, Neb. ; farmer. 



184. HARVEY SPENCER 6 (Joseph 5 , John 4 , Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , 
John 1 ). He removed to New Albany, Ind. He married, Nov. 
1, 1816, at New Albany, Martha Eliza, dau. of James and 
Philazania (Waltham) Gallion of Baltimore, Md. She was b. 
Sept. 10, 1799; d. 1863. 

CHILD. 

346. i. Philazania Waltham 7 , b. at New Albany, Ind., Nov. 
10, 1818; d. Apr. 8, 1900. She married, Sept. 4, 
1839, at New Albany, Ind., John George Hoff, son 
of John and Anna Mary (Boyer) Hoff of Lancaster, 
Pa. He was b. Mar. 12, 1812 ; d. Jan. 29, 1893, at 
Waterloo, Iowa. 

CHILDREN. 

1. John Elderkin, b. June 12, 1840, at New Albany, Ind. He is 

a lawyer (1904) in Fort Dodge. Iowa. He m. June 30, 1870, 
at St. Louis, Mo., Sallie Campbell Wilson. Children : 

a. Harvey Wilson, b. Oct. 31, 1873; m. Aug. 16, 1899, Wilhel- 

mina Christene Meyer. Child : Alexandria Mary, b. Mar. 
28, 1904. 

b. Anna Campbell, b. May 18, 1879. 

2. Martha Eliza, b. May 3, 1843, at New Albany. 

3. George Atlee, b. Apr. 7, 1845, at New Albany; served during 

Civil War in 66th Indiana Infantry; m. June 17, 1879, at 
Philadelphia, Pa., Margaret Hoff Atlee. Child : 
a. Atlee Heber, b. Oct. 2, 1881, at Waterloo, Iowa. 

4. Heber, b. Sept. 15, 1859, at Orleans, Ind.; d. Oct. 1, 1890. 




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DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 149 

193. JOHN EDWARD 6 (Edward 5 , John 4 , Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , 
John 1 ). Farmer in Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y. He married 
first, May 7, 1844, Eliza M., dau. of William Marsh of Kirk- 
land, Oneida Co., N. Y. She was b. Jan. 21, 1826; d. May 24, 
1852. He married second, Nov. 24, 1853, Lavinia, dau. of 
Calvin Kellogg of Clinton. 

CHILDREN, BY SECOND WIFE. 

+ 347. i. Frank Augustus 7 , b. Jan. 21, 1855, at Clinton, N. Y. 
+ 348. ii. Edward 7 , b. May 17, 1864. 



201. JOHN DENNISTON 6 (Robert 5 , John 4 , Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , 
John 1 ), Schenectady, N. Y. Civil engineer; general super- 
intendent Harlem R. R. ; paymaster N. Y. C. R. R. He mar- 
ried, May, 1845, Wilhelmina Kuper of Chambly, Canada. She 
d. Sept. 16, 1899. 

CHILDREN. 

349. i. Robert 7 , b. Feb. 23, 1846; d, July 14, 1862. 

350. ii. Lucy 7 , b. Nov. 28, 1848; m. Nov. 3, 1875, George W. 

Featherstonaugh, lawyer. 



CHILDREN. 



1. George W., b. May 28, 1878. 

2. Emily C, b. Apr. 4, 1886. 

351. iii. Edward 7 , b. Jan. 13, 1850; m. Clara, dau. of Governor 

H. Ludington of Wisconsin. They have five chil- 
dren. They have sent no further record. 

352. iv. Alice 7 , d. young. 

353. v. Blanche 7 , d. young. 

354. vi. Laura 7 , d. young. 



205. ROBERT 6 (Robert 5 , John 4 , Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He 
left school at fifteen and shortly afterwards obtained employ- 
ment in the store of Hammond & Co., Crown Point, N. Y. In 
1849 ne started for California, overland by southern route, 
passing through the country of the hostile Indians, Comanches, 



15° DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Navahoes and Apaches. He had two years' experience of 
mining and trading in California. He returned in 185 1 to his 
old situation at Crown Point. In 1855 he moved to Milwaukee, 
Wis., where he started without capital as a produce commission 
merchant, building up a large and prosperous business, from 
which he retired in 1900, when over seventy. He married, Oct. 
15, 1864, at Milwaukee, Wis., Eliza Whetten. 

CHILDREN. 

355. i. Eliza W. 7 , b. Aug. 15, 1865 ; married Dec. 7, 1887, 

Grant Fitch, b. Sept. 22, 1859 (Yale 1881) ; 
descended from the Fitches of Saybrook, Conn. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Ruth, b. Aug. 18, 1890. 

2. Eliot Grant, b. Mar. 12, 1895. 

356. ii. Robert 7 , b. Nov. 16, 1867; d. May, 1903. 

357. iii. Mary 7 , b. Jan. 8, 1870; married Oct. 11, 1893, Frank- 

lin Taylor Smith, b. July 14, 1864 (Wesleyan Univ. 
1884). 

CHILDREN. 

1. Mary Eliot, b. Dec. 21, 1894. 

2. Robert Eliot, b. May 24, 1899. 

3. Augustus Ledyard, b. Oct. 18, 1901. 

358. iv. Charles Hamilton 7 , b. Feb. 23, 1874; d. Dec. 2, 

1898. 



206. ELY AUGUSTUS (George 5 , George*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , 
John 1 ). He was for many years a merchant in Clinton, Conn., 
but retired from business and devoted himself to more leisurely 
pursuits. He collected a considerable library, and devoted also 
much time and attention to the cause of agriculture. He 
delivered an address before the Agricultural Society of Middle- 
sex County, which was published at the time and is now a rare 
pamphlet. He was active in originating and carrying on the 
construction of the New Haven and New London Railroad, and 
was president of the road for many years. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 151 

He filled with distinction the office of Brigadier-General of 
Artillery, being a popular and efficient officer. He was elected 
by the Legislature Judge of the County Court of Middlesex 
County. In 1839 he was elected a member of the State Senate. 

Courteous and dignified in manner, refined and scholarly in 
his tastes, his last years were passed largely in devotion to his 
invalid wife, to whom he was deeply attached. Their deaths 
occurred within two days of each other and they were laid in 
one grave. He married, July 14, 1818, Susan Maria, daughter 
of Humphrey Pratt of Saybrook. She died Jan. 9, 1870. 

CHILDREN. 

+ 359- i- George Edwin 7 , b. Apr. 16, 1819. 

+ 360. ii. Henry Augustus 7 , b. Apr. 17, 1821 ; d. July 16, 1904. 

+ 361. iii. Charles Alexander 7 , b. Jan. 6, 1831. 



210. JOHN HENRY 6 (Achilles H. 5 , George 4 , Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , 
John 1 ). Clerk in the Registrar's office in the City of New 
York for many years. He married, Oct. 7, 1839, Margaretta, 
dau. of John Hornung of New York. 



CHILDREN. 



+ 362. i. Henry Achilles 7 , b. Oct. 31, 1840; d. Mar. 27, 1878. 
+ 363. ii. George F. 7 , b. Feb. 14, 1842. 



211. WILLIAM HORACE 6 (William 5 , Nathaniel 4 , Abial 3 , 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ) was a native of Guilford. He and his brother 
George early left the parental roof to seek a wider field for their 
energies. He became a merchant in New Haven, and during 
the forty years of an active business career gained a high repu- 
tation for tact, shrewdness and general business ability. He 
constantly gave assistance to others less fortunate than him- 
self, even before his own success was established, and accumu- 
lated what in those days was considered a "snug fortune." 
He retired from his regular business in 1840 and later invested 
in manufacturing and other enterprises, "taking his chances" 
and making or losing largely, as the case might be. He 
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152 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

remarked late in life that if, on retiring from business, he had 
invested his capital at a low rate of interest and let it accumu- 
late, he would have been a much richer man. But such a 
conservative course would have suited neither his inclination 
nor his instincts. In our day he would have been called a 
"self-made" and a "public-spirited" man, ever ready to serve 
his community. He was the first president of the New Haven 
County Bank, which he piloted through the financial depression 
of 1836-7, and was one of three gentlemen who, during the 
same period, backed the construction of the New Haven & 
Hartford Railroad. 

He was a vestryman in Trinity Church in 1836 and was 
actively identified with the founding of St. Paul's Church. 

Mr. Eliot was a handsome man. Also his brothers George 
and Charles were handsome, well-made men — all three tall, with 
dark hair and blue eyes. His granddaughter well remembers 
the fine appearance he created as he rode through the streets in 
his open carriage, then called a "barouche," behind two high- 
stepping horses and a liveried coachman, — the pleasant smile 
and the courtly bow as he greeted his friends. It was a glimpse 
of a generation of whom, alas ! barely a trace now remains. 

He married first, May 16, 1809, Mary, daughter of William 
Law, Esq., of Cheshire, and great-granddaughter of Hon. 
Jonathan Law, Governor of Connecticut. (See No. 16.) She 
was b. Sept. 10, 1785 ; d. Feb. 2, 1828. He married second, 
Aug. 31, 1829, Hannah, daughter of Daniel Hubbard, Esq., of 
Guilford, and widow of Timothy Stone, Esq., of Guilford. She 
was b. Feb. 16, 1797; d. Dec. 24, 1851. 

CHILDREN, ALL BY FIRST WIFE. 

364. i. William Rossiter 7 , b. Apr. 27, 1810; d. Oct. 31, 

1811. 

365. ii. Elizabeth 7 , b. Nov. 17, 1812 ; d. Sept. 10, 1813. 

366. iii. William Frederic 7 , b. Aug. 20, 1814; d. Aug. 10, 

1815. 

367. iv. Henrietta Maria 7 , b. Jan. 16, 1817; d. May 3. 1834. 

368. v. Mary Elizabeth 7 , b. Apr. 16, 1819, at New Haven, 

Conn.; d, Dec. 21, 1874, in Milwaukee, Wis. 
She married July 18, 1838, in New York City, Dr. John 
Knowlton Bartlett of Portsmouth, N. H.. later of Milwaukee, 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 153 

Wis. He was b. Feb. 28, 1816, at Portsmouth, N. H. ; d. Nov. 
26, 1889, in Berkeley, Cal. He graduated at Yale Coll. in 1838 
and in its medical department in 1841. He was president of 
the Wisconsin State Medical Society at one time, an active 
member of the American Medical Association, and a successful 
practitioner in Milwaukee. 

In compliance with a direction in his will, his body was 
cremated at Los Angeles, Cat, and the ashes sent to Milwaukee 
for interment in the family burying ground. 

CHILD. 

1. Ellen Dodd, b. July 31, 1839, at Portsmouth, N. H. ; m. April 
2, 1868, at Milwaukee, Wis., Geo. W. Bacon, b. Aug. 12, 1838, 
at Great Barrington, Mass. They live at present (1904) at 

Seattle, Wash. 



-L. 369. vi. George Augustus 7 , b. Aug. 9, 1820 ; d. Sept. 16, it 

370. vii. Jane Matilda 7 , b. Aug. 26, 1822 ; d. Apr. 18, 1842. 
-f 371. viii. William Horace 7 , b. Dec. 30, 1824; d. Dec. 8, 1852. 



212. CHARLES 6 (William 5 , Nathaniel*, Abial*, Joseph 2 , John 1 ). 
Farmer in Guilford. He married, Oct. 15, 181 5, at North 
Madison, Conn., Chloe, dau. of James Pardee of East Haven. 
She was b. Apr. 5, 1785, at East Haven; d. July 6, 1838, at 
Guilford. 

CHILDREN. 

372. i. Adeline 7 , b. June 28, 1816, at Guilford, Conn. ; d. 

Jan. 11, 1905, at Guilford. She married first, May 

12, 1839, Josiah Griswold of Guilford. He was b. 

Nov. 15, 1812 ; d. Dec. 2, 1842. She married 

second, at Detroit, Mich., Nov. 14, 1853, Leverett 

Camp Stone, b. June 4, 1819, at Guilford, Conn.; 

d. June 12, 1892. 

One of the rare women of her times. A blessing to everyone 

who knew her. Perhaps no fitter tribute can be paid to her 

memory than is contained in the following lines by Edward 

Howard Griggs: "In the effort to appreciate various forms 

of greatness let us not underestimate the value of a simple good 



154 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

life. Just to be good : to keep life pure from degrading 
elements, to make it constantly helpful in little ways to those 
who are touched by it, to keep one's spirit always sweet, and 
avoid all manner of petty anger and irritability — that is an ideal 
as noble as it is difficult." 

CHILDREN BY SECOND MARRIAGE. 

1. Anna Mary, b. Aug. 23, 1854. Lives in Guilford. 

2. William Leete, of Guilford, b. Dec. 13, 1857; m. Feb. 18, 1866, 

Elizabeth Morrell of Holmdell, N. J., b. Sept. 1, 1862. Children : 

a. Adeline Eliot, b. Apr. 8, 1887. 

b. William Morrell, b. Feb. 28, 1890. 

c. Lever ett Camp, b. Dec. 10, 1891. 

d. Eliot Wyllys, b. Apr. 22, 1894. 

-L. 373. ii. Lewis Rossiter 7 , b. Jan. 23, 1819; d. June 8, 1893. 

374. iii. Edward 7 , b. Mar. 25, 1820; d. Nov. 8, 1880, at Detroit, 

Mich. He married Nov. 18, 1842, Harriet Louisa, 
dau. of David Dorman of New Haven. She was b. 
Feb. 21, 1820. He was a merchant at Detroit, Mich. 

375. iv. Sarah Ann 7 , b. Nov. 3, 182 1, at Guilford, Conn. She 

married Dec. 31, 1843, Henry Reeves Spencer, b. 
Sept. 22, 1820; d. June 19, 1898. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Charles Eliot, b. Dec. 2, 1844, at Guilford, Conn.; m. Nov. 11, 

1869, at Guilford, Lydia Lucretia Davis. Children: 

a. Fits Henry, b. May 29, 1872 ; d. Aug. 27, 1872. 

b. Charles Eliot, b. Aug. 27, 1873; d. Aug. 8, 1881. 

c. Ruth Davis, b. Mar. 20, 1876, at Mount Kisco, N. Y. ; m. 

Evander J. Mclver. Child : Ruth Janet. 

d. Robert Henry, b. Nov. 21, 1878, at Mount Kisco, N. Y. 

e. Frank Roger, b. Feb. 23, 1880, at Mount Kisco, N. Y. ; d. 

Mar. 7, 1880. 

2. Henry Edward, b. Nov. 3, 1847 ; d. Apr. 5, 1848. 

3. Harvey Walter, b. Jan. 5, 1851 ; d. Nov. 28, 1894, at Guilford, 

Conn. He m. May 29, 1878, Alice Hill of Westbrook, Conn., 
b. June 1851. 

4. Robert Tuttle, b. June 24, 1853, at Guilford, Conn.; m. Apr. 17, 

1879, at New Haven, Abby Beers Blackman. Children : 

a. May Blackman, b. Nov. 10, 1880, at New Haven. 

b. Ethel Kimbcrly, b. Mar. 11, 1888, at Brooklyn, N. Y. 

c. Flarvey, b: July 31, 1897, at Brooklyn, N. Y. 

5. Daniel Reeves, b. Apr. 8, 1855, at Guilford, Conn. ; m. Feb. 26, 

1878, Hattie Benton Davis, b. Apr. 15, 1855, at Guilford, Conn. 
Children, all born at Guilford: 



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155 



a. Sara Eliot, b. Dec. 17, 1878. 

b. Frank Davis, b. Mar. 17, 1881. 

c. Annie Griffing, b. Jan. 17, 1884. 

d. Henry Leete, b. June 30, 1887. 

e. Samuel Leslie, b. June 10, 189 1. 

6. James Henry, b. Oct. 7, i860; d. Sept. 12, 1864. 

+ 376. v. Charles Morgan 7 , b. Dec. 8, 1824; d. Dec. 18, 1892, 
at New Britain, Conn. 
277- vi. Ruth 7 , b. Nov. 23, 1829. She married at Guilford, 
Conn., Apr. 23, 1848, Samuel A. Wilcox, b. July 9, 
1819, at Madison, Conn. ; d. at New Haven, Dec. 13, 
1876. 



CHILDREN. 

Lewis Edward, b. Mar. 12, 1849, at Guilford. 
Caroline, b. July 22, 1850; d. Aug. 22, 1850, at Guilford. 
Charles Augustus, b. July 22, 185 1 ; d. Oct. 17, 1884. 
Stella Eliot, b. June 5, 1853, at Guilford. 

Frank Mortimer, b. Apr. 18, 1855, at Guilford; m. July 15, 1876, 
at New Haven, Margaret Sarah Rhodes. Children : 

a. Clara Louise, b. Aug. 17, 1877, at New Haven. 

b. Louis, b. May 9, 1879. 

Sarah Adeline, b. Sept. 1, 1857, at Fenton, Mich. ; m. Feb. 8, 
1888, at New Haven, Conn., Edwin Wheatley Jones of 
Hamilton, Bermuda, b. at Paget, Bermuda, June 24, 1855. 



213. GEORGE AUGUSTUS 6 (William 5 , Nathaniel*, Abial 3 , 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He graduated at Yale Coll. in 1813, studied 
law with Seth P. Staples of New Haven, and after admission 
to the bar in New Haven in the autumn of 181 5 settled in Erie, 
Pa., where he early took a prominent position. He practiced 
his profession until 1855, when he retired from active business 
and engaged in managing a fancy farm. He died of paralysis 
in 1870, aged 78. (See Obituary Records Yale Coll.) He 
married at Erie, Pa., Nov. 12, 1818, Sarah, dau. of Robert 
Brown. She was b. Mar. 12, 1800; d. May 20, 1874. 



children. 



378. i. William H. 7 , b. June 14, 1823; d, Oct. 7, 1845. 
+ 379- u - John 7 , b. March 7, 1825, at Erie, Pa. ; d. Sept. 2, 1898. 



156 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

220. RICHARD SAMUEL 6 (Reuben 5 , Wyllys 4 , AbiaP, Joseph 2 , 
John 1 ), Royalton, Cuyahoga Co., O. He married first, Sept. 
28, 1826, Elizabeth, dau. of John Coates of Royalton, a native of 
Yorkshire, England. She was b. Mar. 30, 1805 ; d. Sept. 12, 
1841. He married second, Aug. 20, 1847, at Cleveland, O., 
Mary Ann, dau. of John Warner of Cleveland, a native of 
England. She was b. Nov. 27, 1829; d. 1855. 

CHILDREN, BY FIRST WIFE. 

380. i. Cornelia Maria 7 , b. Aug. 27, 1827 ; d. Nov. 2, 1867. 

She m. at Parma, O., 1866, George M. Spence. 

381. ii. Grace Ann 7 , b. Feb. 8, 1830; d. June 24, 1830. 

382. iii. Nelson James 7 , b. Jan. 4, 1832; d. Sept. 12, 1841. 
-f- 383. iv. Reuben Thomas 7 , b. Oct. 21, 1834, at No. Royalton, O. 

384. v. Jane Eleanor 7 , b. June 14, 1837, at No. Royalton, O. 

She attended the Brooklyn Academy, and Miss L. T. Guilford's 
Academy in Cleveland, O. ; has been (1904) correspondent of 
the Ohio Farmer for several years ; is the author of "Women 
of Tennyson," "Coates Family History," and a "Series of 
Parlor Lectures" ; also has ( 1904) private classes in literature. 
She married Dec. 31, 1854, Wm. C. Snow, who d. Jan. 12, 1892. 

CHILDREN — ALL BORN AT PARMA, OHIO. 

i. Frank H., b. Feb. 27, 1856. He was educated at Berea and 
Oberlin Colleges, and is a farmer (1904). He m. Nov. 8, 1882, 
Clara Jeanette Fitch. Children : 
a. Orlo, d., and (b) Rollo (twins), b. Jan. 6, 1884. 

c. Clifton F., b. May 11, 1885. 

d. William D., b. Oct. 3, 1887. 

e. Dell B., b. Mar. 24, 1889. 

f. Warren Clare, b. Jan. 22, 1891. 

2. Addie, b. Aug. 18, 1858. 

3. Bertha L., b. Aug. 31, 1864, at Parma, O. ; m. Nov. 18, 1886, 

Charles W. Brainerd, a prominent business man of Cleveland, 
O., and member of the Chamber of Commerce. Children : 

a. Eva M., b. Dec. 11, 1887, at Cleveland, O. 

b. Genevieve R., b. Feb. 26, 1890, at Warren, Pa. 

4. Albert W., b. Apr. 14, 1872, at Parma, O. He is a merchant 

at Cleveland; m. Oct. 14, 1896, at Cleveland, O., Julia A. 
Vollkopf. Children : 

a. Chester Wilbur, b. Feb. 8, 1898, at Cleveland, O. 

b. Irving Albert, b. May 12, 1903, at Cleveland, O. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 1 57 

385. vi. Eugene Wyllys 7 , b. Sept. 19, 1840, at No. Royalton, 

Ohio. 
He served in the Union army nearly four years, and was in 
the following battles : With the 7th O. V. I. under Col. Tyler, 
"Cross Lanes" ; under Gen. Lander, "Blue Gap" ; under Gen. 
Shields, "Winchester" ; with the 124th O. V. I. at "Thompson's 
Station," "Chickamauga," "Lookout Mountain," "Rockyfaced 
Ridge," "Mission Ridge," "Resaca," "Pickett's Mills," "Frank- 
lin" and "Nashville." He was wounded at "Cross Lanes," 
"Chickamauga" and "Nashville." He married in 1895, Eldora 
Palmer Bond of Cleveland, O. She d. Oct. 1901. No issue. 

CHILD, BY SECOND WIFE. 

386. vii. Harriet Sophia 7 , b. July 31, 1849, at Cleveland, O. 

She married Feb. 15, 1900, at Los Angeles, Cal., 
Horatio Nelson Rust, a native of Amherst, Mass., 
but now (1904) living in So. Pasadena, Cal. He 
is a well-known archaeologist. 



221. NELSON JAMES 6 (Reuben 5 , Wyllys*, AbiaP, Joseph 2 , 
John 1 ). Merchant in New York City, where he died suddenly 
in 1864. He is buried in Guilford. In 1832-3 his name appears 
in the New York directory as doing business at 42 Exchange 
Place and living at 10 State Street. He married, Jan. 19, 1831, 
Catherine Hunt, dau. of Wm. and Catherine (Hunt) Peek of 
New York City. She was b. May 7, 1807; d. at Westfield, 
N. J., Aug. 10, 1879, an d is buried in the East burying ground 
at Guilford. 

children. 

387. i. Grace Fairchild 7 , b. Oct. 22, 183 1 ; d. Feb. 9, 185 1. 
She married Oct. 22, 1850, Rev. Geo. S. Slattery 
of Saco, Maine. 
+ 388. ii. William Peek 7 , b. Jan. 3, 1834. 

389. iii. Eliza 7 , b. Sept. 11, 1835 ; d. Apr. 7, 1862. 

390. iv. Laura 7 , b. July 24, 1837 ; d. Oct. 21, 1853. 

391. v. James Henry 7 , b. Sept. 29, 1839; d. suddenly at 

Westfield, N. J., June 29, 1870 ; buried at Guilford. 



158 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

392. vi. Catherine Cecelia 7 , b. Nov. 3, 1841 ; d. Sept. 14, 
1844. 
+ 393- vii. Samuel 7 , b. Apr. 11, 1844; d. July 25, 1893. 
394. viii. Sidney 7 , b. Sept. 22, 1850 ; d. Feb. 7, 1859. 



226. FRANKLIN REUBEN 6 (Reuben 5 , Wyllys 4 , AbiaP, Joseph 2 , 
John 1 ). He went from Guilford to Cleveland, O., in 1844. 
Horticulturist and editor. His publications were: "The 
Western Fruit Book. ... By F. R. Elliott. New edition, 
revised, enlarged and improved. . . . New York, 1867, pp. 
528" ; "Popular deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs. . . . 
New York . . . 1868, pp. 125" ; "Hand book for fruit growers 
. . . Illustrated. Rochester, N. Y. . . . 1876. Small 8vo, pp. 
128"; Handbook of practical landscape gardening . . . con- 
taining designs for lots and grounds . . . Rochester, N. Y. . . . 
1877. 8vo, cloth, pp. 96" ; an article on "Fruit culture in 
Ohio," in the New York State Agricultural Society Transac- 
tions, Albany, N. Y., 1850, pp. 405-411. He married, Feb. 17, 
1846, at Rockport, O., Sophia Appolonia. dau. of Henry and 
Theodosia Hopkins of Pompey Hill, N. Y., b. June, 1824; d. 
June 25, 1885, at Lakewood, O. 

CHILDREN. 

-|- 395. i. Henry Wood 7 , b. Nov. 13, 1846, at Cleveland, O. 

396. ii. Frank 7 , b. Mar. 31, 1848; d. Nov. 14, 1876. 

397. iii. Ward 7 , d. young. 

398. iv. Kate 7 , b. Aug. 16, i860; married W. H. Rankin, 1878. 

399. v. Carrie 7 , b. Oct. 10, 1862 ; married S. W. Roberts, 1881. 

400. vi. Cora 7 , b. Nov. 19, 1864; married John S. Luther, 1880. 



230. HENRY HILL 6 (Andrew 5 , Wyllys\ Abial 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). 
Merchant in New York City. He was called "the handsomest 
man in New York." He married Nov. 9, 1829, Elmira, dau. of 
Samuel and Jane (Tileston) Whittemore of New York City. 
She was b. Feb. 18, 1806; d. Dec. 22, 1875. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 159 

CHILDREN. 

401. i. Frederick Betts 7 , b. Sept. 25, 1830; married Dec. 16, 
1869, Susan, dau. of Wm. and Louisa C. (Hoyt) 
Scott of New York. She was b. Aug-. 18, 1834. 
+ 402. ii. Henry Hill 7 , b. Sept. 24, 1833, in New York. 

403. iii. Elmira Julia 7 , b. Feb. 13, 1837; lives (1904) in New 

Haven. 

404. iv. Jeannie Whittemore 7 , b. Feb. 29, 1840. 

She married, Apr. 17, 1871, Rev. Wm. Graham Sumner of 
the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was born in Paterson, 
N. J., Oct. 30, I1840, of English parents, his father, Thomas 
Sumner, having come to this country in 1836. He graduated 
at Yale Coll. in 1863, studied theology at Gottingen and Oxford, 
was ordained in New Haven, and is now (1904) Professor of 
Political and Social Science at Yale University. He is the 
author of "History of American Currency," "Essays in Politi- 
cal Economy," "Protectionism," "What Social Classes Owe to 
Each Other," "History of Banking in the United States," "Life 
of Alexander Hamilton," "Life of Robert Morris," and "Life 
of Andrew Jackson." 

CHILDREN. 

1. Eliot, b. Mar. 2, 1872; d. July 4, 1872. 

2. Eliot, b. Oct. 18, 1873; A.B. Yale Coll. 1896; Asst. Supt. of 

Motive Power. Penn. R. R., Altoona, Pa. 

3. Graham, b. Oct. 25, 1876; A.B. Yale Coll. 1897; Harvard Law- 

School 1900. He m. Mar. 18, 1903, Laura Woolsey, dau. of 
Henry A. and Jane (Woolsey) Yardley of Newport, R. I. 



234. CHARLES WYLLYS 6 (Andrew 5 , Wyllys*, Abial 3 , Joseph 2 , 
John 1 ). After a boyhood spent in Guilford, he went to New 
York about 1835, where he worked as a clerk until 1838-9, when 
he took up the study of horticulture and landscape gardening 
with A. J. Downing at Newburgh, N. Y. After an apprentice- 
ship with Mr. Downing,, he went to Cincinnati in 1840. Here 
were living his sister, Elizabeth, married to Samuel E. Foote, 
and his youngest sister, Sarah, married to Reverend James H. 
Perkins ; and through their influence he selected Cincinnati as 
a place in which to practice his profession. He remained there 



160 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

until 1848, when he returned to New York and went into busi- 
ness again. 

Commercial life, however, never had much attraction for him, 
for his great interest was in nature, and in the great questions 
of the day that were discussed so much a few years before the 
war. 

His principal friends were men outside of commercial life, 
like Mr. Charles Loring Brace, with whom he was associated 
in founding the Children's Aid Society in 1853, of which he was 
one of the first trustees. Among his closest friends were Mr. 
Frederic Law Olmsted, the famous landscape gardener, and 
Mr. Calvert Vaux, the architect, and in 1857 he was appointed 
one of the original commissioners for laying out Central Park 
in the city of New York. 

His association with this type of men brought him in contact 
with prominent New England people, and at Cambridge, Mass., 
where Mr. James Russell Lowell and Dr. Estes Howe were 
living, he met his future wife, the sister of Mrs. Lowell and Mrs. 
Howe. They were married at Cambridge and lived in New 
York and New Haven until 1869. Three children were born to 
them. All, except Howard, died young. 

While living in New York he was engaged in commercial 
business, but was always more interested in literary and artistic 
pursuits, and wrote much, and was associated with newspaper 
and literary men. 

In 1869 he and Mrs. Elliott and the boy Howard went to 
England for something over a year. For some time he had been 
much interested in the general question of improving the type 
of the American home, and in the movement that was under 
way in England under Eastlake. On his return from England 
in 1870, he established in Boston the Household Art Company, 
which paid particular attention to more sensible and artistic home 
fitting and furnishing. 

In 1873-4 his health failed somewhat, and he went abroad 
again, partly on business and partly for rest. 

He lived in Cambridge, Mass., until about 1879, interested in 
the Household Art Company, and in literary matters, giving 
some lectures, — one course before the Lowell Institute. 

His health not being good, he spent considerable time, from 
1878 until the time of his death, in the west, where he had inter- 




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DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. l6l 

ests in both Nebraska and Kansas in cattle and sheep, making 
his headquarters while in the west at Ashland, Neb. 

While on a visit to Guilford in the summer of 1883, he passed 
away suddenly and peacefully on August 23, about ten o'clock 
in the evening. 

As a young man Mr. Elliott was very spirited and handsome, 
and to the end of his life was a very fine looking man. He was 
versatile, brilliant in conversation, full of anecdote, with much 
personal magnetism, and extremely fond of people, especially 
children. The beauties of nature appealed to him, and for recre- 
ation he used to sketch and paint. 

He wrote much all through his life, and the following is a 
statement of his principal works : 

"Cottages and Cottage Life, Containing Plans for Country Houses." 
Cincinnati and New York, 1848. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, pp. 226. 

"Mysteries ; or Glimpses of the Supernatural." New York. Harper & 
Brothers. 1852. pp. 273. 

"Saint Domingo, Its Revolution and Its Hero, Toussaint L'Ouverture." 
1855. i2mo, pp. 83. 

"The New England History, From the Discovery of the Continent, 
A. D. 986, to the Time When the Colonies Declared Their Inde- 
pendence, A. D. 1776." In two volumes. New York and London. 
1857. Vol. I, pp. 497. Vol. II, pp. 492. 8vo. 

"Remarkable Characters and Places of the Holy Land." Illustrated. 
Hartford, Conn., and San Francisco. 1868. pp. 640. 

"The Book of American Interiors," prepared from existing houses. 
Illustrated. Boston. 1876. Quarto,' pp. 235. 

"Pottery and Porcelain." 1878. 8vo, pp. 358. 

In addition to the above, he wrote innumerable articles for 
magazines and newspapers, the largest and most valuable col- 
lection being in "Putnam's" Magazine, and the "Galaxy," 
both published years ago in New York City. 

He married, July 25, 1855, Mary Green White, daughter of 
Abijah and Ann Maria (Howard) White. She was born at 
Watertown, Mass., Dec. 29, 1826. 

CHILDREN. 

405. i. Paul 7 , b. in New York, June 8, 1856; d. at New 

Haven, July 25, 1858. 

406. ii. Wyllys 7 , b. in New Haven, Mar. 2, 1858 ; d. in New 

York, Apr. 22, 1865. 
-+- 407. iii. Howard 7 , b. in New York, Dec. 6, i860. 



162 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

235. ALEXANDER McGILVRAE 6 (Timothy 5 , Timothy 4 , AbiaP, 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer in Worthington, O. Moved to 
Orange Township. He married first, Jan. i, 1835, Julia Ann, 
dau. of Simon and Sarah (Clark) Tyler of Chester. She was 
b. Mar. 17, 1808; d. May 3, 1838, aged 30. He married 
second, at Orange Township, June 6, 1839, Mrs. Margaret 
Williams, dau. of Thomas Smith of Columbus, O. She was b. 
Dec. 22, 1812, in Maryland ; d. Aug. 29, 1866. 

CHILDREN, BY FIRST WIFE. 

408. i. Julia Jeanette 7 , b. at Worthington, O., Jan. 4, 1836 ; 

d. Sept. 2, 1894. She married, Oct. 29, 1864, at 
Detroit, Mich., Hiram H. Clark, b. Feb. 29, 1824, 
in Chester, Conn. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Eliot Albert, b. Dec. 23, 1866, at Winthrop, Conn.; grad. 

Wesleyan Acad. 1883 ; m. Oct. 31, 1890, at Higganum, Conn., 
Mary Ellen Hotchkiss (Gladding). Child: 
a. Luella Julia, b. May 10, 1891. 

2. Charles Henry, b. June 23, 1874; d. Aug. 1, 1890. 

3. Julia Ann, b. Oct. 16, 1876, at Chester, Conn. She m. Dec. 25, 

1897, Capt. Henry Davis Goken. Children : 

a. Marguerette Julia, b. June 13, 1899. 

b. Helen Elizabeth, b. Feb. 16, 1904. 

409. ii. Samuel Arnold 7 , b. Apr. 15, 1838; d. Sept. 2, 1840. 

CHILDREN, BY SECOND WIFE. 

-f- 410. iii. Alexander Lucius 7 , b. Mar. 22, 1840, Orange Town- 
ship, O. 
411. iv. Margaret Maria 7 , b. Mar. 12, 1842, Orange Town- 
ship, O. ; d. Sept. 23, 1887. She married, Nov. 13, 
i860, Horace F. Smith. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Franklin Eliot of Lewis Centre, O., b. Dec. 3, 1861, in Del. Co. ; 
m. Aug. 1885, Anna Withrow. Children: 

a. Lila May, b. Nov. 21, 1886. 

b. Josephine, b. May 1888; m. Aug. 1903, Frank Holt of 

Columbus, O. 

c. Mamie, b. May 1890. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 163 

2. Lewis Michael, b. July 9, 1864, in Del. Co. ; m. Feb. 1893, Minnie 

Lowery. Children : 

a. Frederick Horace, b. Sept. 1895. 

b. Lewis Whitney, b. Jan. 19, 1901. 

c. Alice Marie, b. Sept. 1902. 

3. Jane Belle, b. Nov. 1, 1865, in Del. Co. ; d. Feb. 1885. She m. 

July 1884, Douglas Boyd. Child : 
a. James Franklin, b. Dec. 14, 1884. 

412. v. Henry 7 , b. Nov. 27, 1844, Del. Co. ; d. July 27, 1846. 

413. vi. Emily Jane 7 , b. Oct. 10, 1847, Del. Co. ; d. Apr. 23, 

1893. 

414. vii. Eveline 7 , b. Sept. 24, 1849, Del. Co. 

415. viii. Eli Emery 7 , b. Jan. 6, 1852, Del. Co. He is (1904) 

a clerk in Columbus, O. 



237. LUCIUS 6 {Timothy 5 , Timothy*, AbiaP, Joseph 2 , John 1 ). 
Farmer in Branford. He was one of the original trustees of the 
Methodist Church in Guilford, Conn. He married, at Guilford, 
Dec. 22, 1839, Mary Jane, dau. of Luzerne and Lois (Foote) 
Bartholomew of Northford, and widow of Mr. Frisbie of Bran- 
ford. She was born Sept. 21, 1810, and was still living (July, 
1903), aged 93 years. 

CHILD. 

416. i. Jane Cornelia 7 , b. Dec. 7, 1840. 



239. LUZERNE 6 (Timothy 5 , Timothy 4 , Abial 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). 
Farmer in Durham. He married, Sept. 24, 1839, Hannah, dau. 
of Ebenezer Robinson of Durham. She was b. Nov. 6, 1814; 
d. Nov. 1, 1*888. 

CHILDREN. 

+ 417. i. Edgar Timothy 7 , b. July 1, 1840; d. Nov. 16, 1897. 
-j- 418. ii. James Kelley 7 , b. Nov. 24, 1845. 



241. FREDERICK TYLER 6 (William Rose 5 , Timothy 4 , Abial 3 , 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer in Durham, Conn., occupying land 
inherited from his ancestors. Date of deed 1716, confirmed to 



164 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Joseph Eliot's heirs in 1699. He was a man of strong moral con- 
victions, and his conduct was guided by what he believed to be 
right and just. He was possessed of much breadth of mind 
and took a deep interest in the affairs of the state and nation. 
He served in the Legislature of his state in 1849. He married, 
Sept. 2.7, 1835, Ann Augusta, dau. of Nathaniel and Sally 
(Todd) Bunnell, and granddaughter of Nathaniel Bunnell, a 
Revolutionary patriot. She was b. Apr. 8, 1815; d. Feb. 13, 
1901. Mrs. Eliot was a devoted wife and mother, amiable and 
unselfish. She lived for others, and numbered among her 
friends all who knew her. She closed a long life of practical 
Christianity in 1901 at Middletown, Conn. 

CHILDREN. 

419. i. Harriet Augusta 7 , b. July 6, 1836. She married, Oct. 

24, 1857, Samuel Ward Loper of Guilford, b. July 

3> i834- 
Professor Loper is an enthusiastic geologist, and for original 
research has won the degree of M.A. from Trinity College. He 
has been in the geological service of the Government for many 
years, and now (1904) occupies the chair of lecturer on geology, 
and is curator of the museum, of the Wesleyan University at 
Middletown, Conn. In 1894 he published a volume of poems 
entitled "Echoes from the Home of Halleck and Other Poems." 

CHILDREN. 

i. Annie Brewster, b. Feb. 7, i860; m. Oct. 22, 1885, Franklin T. 
Smith of Durham. Children : 

a. Mildred Loper, b. Oct. 7, 1887. 

b. Gladys Eliot, b. Mar. 24, 1890. 

c. Ward Loper, b. Apr. 22, ,1893; d. Dec. 5, 1900. 

d. Malcolm F., b. Jan. 31, 1896; d. May 6, 1896. 

e. Evelyn Annie, b. Apr. 22, 1899. 

2. Grace Eliot, b. Dec. 30, 1862; m. Mar. 4, 1886, Wilbur Austin 
Ailing of Durham. Child; 
a. Hilda Loper, b. Feb. 5, 1888. 

420. ii. Mary Jane 7 , b. April 19, 1838; d. Feb. 28, 1872. She 

married, Oct. 18, i860, Charles Coe of Durham. 

421. iii. Sarah Clark 7 , b. July 20, 1840; lives (1904) in New 

York City. She married, Oct. 18, i860, Frederick 
J. Coe of Durham. He died Sept. 19, 1893. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 165 

CHILDREN. 

i. Eliot Halleck, b. Sept. 22, 1861 ; d. Apr. 10, 1872. 

2. Henry Eliot, b. Sept. 1, 1873; now (1904) in business in New 

York City; m. Oct. 8, 1898, Blanche Southmayd Macdonald. 

Children : 

a. Harry Macdonald, b. Dec. 28, 1899. 

b. Marian Eliot, b. Oct. 19, 1902. 

c. Blanche Eleanor, b. Feb. 12, 1904, at New York City. 

422. iv. Evelina Ann 7 , b. Aug. 21, 1844; d. Sept. 4, 1895. 
She married, in 1862, James W. Wadsworth of 
Durham. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Frederick Eliot, b. Apr. 9, 1868; in business in Detroit, Mich.; 

m. Feb. 26, 1895, Katherine Luella Peck of Kalamazoo. 
Children : 

a. Helen Evelyn, b. Feb. 17, 1896. 

b. Horace Eliot, b. Dec. 29, 1898. 

2. Evelyn Eliot, b. June 30, 1872 ; m. Apr. 22, 1900, Frederick K. 

George, of Detroit, Mich. 



242, JOHN HARVEY 6 {William Rose*, Timothy*, Abial 3 , 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Having acquired a good education, he taught 
for a few years in New Haven County. In 1841 he went to 
Bath County, Ky., and established an academy. He removed 
in 1855 to Bloomington, 111., and continued to reside there, 
except for a few years ( 1858- 1 861), spent in Connecticut, until 
his death. He married, Oct. 16, 1845, Ann Eliza, dau. of Dr. 
Alvin Wilson and Mary Nelson (Sims) Bills of Millersburg, 
Ky. She was b. June 25, 1827; d. Dec. 9, 1893. 

CHILDREN. 

423. i. Florence Verilla 7 , b. Apr. 28, 1847 ; teacher in 

Bloomington. 

424. ii. Alice Ophell\ 7 , b. Aug. 29, 1850. She married 

first, Apr. 19, 1870, Elias Ellis, from whom she 
obtained a divorce. She married second, Louis M. 
Ticknor of Chicago, 111., who d. in 1892. Mrs. 
Ticknor is (1904) a portrait painter of much talent 
and lives in Bloomington. 



l66 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

CHILD, BY FIRST HUSBAND. 

I. Jessamine, b. June 28, 1871 ; m. Jan. 19, 1887, Grant Reddick of 
Chicago, 111. Children : 

a. Eliot, b. Apr. 13, 1888. 

b. Pauline Genevieve, b. Aug. 31, 1890. 

425. iii. Laura Ada 7 , b. July 22, 1853 ; d. Oct. 13, 1855. 

426. iv. Carrie 7 , b. Dec. 12, 1856; d. Aug. 13, 1857. 

427. v. Emma Elinora 7 , b. Aug. 10, 1859; married June 7, 

1899, J. F. Hayes. She was for several years 
previous to her marriage a court reporter at Evans- 
ville, Ind. She now lives in Bloomington (1904). 

CHILDREN. 

1. Eliot, b. July 22, 1900. 

2. Marguerite, b. Aug. 9, 1902. 

428. vi. John Harvey 7 , b. Mar. 9, 1863; d. Feb. 7, 1866. 

429. vii. Bernice 7 , b. Aug. 30, 1865; d. Feb. 23, 1866. 

430. viii. Mabel 7 , b. May 26, 1867. She is a graduate of the 

Bloomington High School and lives (1904) in 
Bloomington. 



244. WHITNEY 6 (Wyllys 5 , Timothy*, Abial 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). 
School teacher and farmer. He began teaching school in Guil- 
ford in the autumn of 1844. Afterwards taught in North 
Branford, where he bought a home and lived until 1854, when he 
returned to his father's home in Guilford. He also taught for 
a time in Fair Haven. In 1856 he returned to North Haven, 
where he has since lived. He has served as School Visitor, 
Selectman, Town Agent and Justice of the Peace in Guilford, 
North Branford and North Haven. He was one of the 
Deacons of the Congregational Church in North Haven for 
thirty-five years, and superintendent of the Sunday School of 
the same church for eleven years. He was chairman of the 
Republican Town Committee for sixteen years, and was also a 
member of the State Central Committee. 

In 1867 he was elected a member of the Senate of the State 
of Connecticut, and served for one year as a member of the 
Corporation of Yale College. He married, Mar. 14, 1846, at 
North Branford, Emma Elvina, dau. of J. Wm. Benton. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 167 

CHILDREN. 

431. i. Virginia Augusta 7 , b. June 22, 1847; d. Nov. 3, 
1854, in Guilford. 
+ 432. ii. Gustavus 7 , b. Mar. 27, 1857, in North Haven. 

433. iii. Henry Whitney 7 , b. Feb. 27, 1866, in North Haven; 

received the degree of M.D. from the University of 
Vermont in 1898; served at Montauk Point during 
the summer of 1898; was at Government Post, Wil- 
let's Point, in 1899; transferred to Madison Bar- 
racks, from whence he was ordered to Manila, P. I., 
where he is now (Jan. 1905) Medical Inspector of 
the Insular Board of Health. 

434. iv. Mary Wyllys 7 , b. Nov. 23, 1868. 



246. ELLSWORTH 6 ( Wyllys 5 , Timothy 4 , AbiaP, Joseph 2 , John 1 ). 
A.B. Yale Coll. 1849. and lat er A.M. M.D. Coll. of Physicians 
and Surgeons N. Y. 1852. Having served as junior and senior 
assistant and house surgeon in Bellevue Hospital 1852-3, for 
which he received a diploma, he began his career as a prac- 
ticing physician in that city. He has filled the position of 
attending physician in the Northern and Northeastern Dispen- 
saries, has been Trustee and Registrar in the Coll. of Physicans 
and Surgeons, has been twice president of the Medical Society 
of the County of New York, twice president of the Society for 
the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men, and vice 
president of the Medical Society of the State of New York. 

He is a member of the principal medical societies of New 
York City, is a life member of the New York Historical Society, 
and of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Societies, 
having been for several years vice president of the latter. 

Such is the mere outline of the successive steps in his career 
and the well-deserved honors of a long and useful life. He 
has been called by one of his kinswomen the ''Chief of our 
Tribe," and in another part of this work reference will be made 
to his untiring services to the Eliot family. He married, May 
7, 1856, Anna, dau. of Joshua and Ruth Shaw (Sumner) Stone 
of Boston, Mass., b. Dec. 13, 1825, died Jan. 23, 1905. Benjamin 
P. Shillaber, in The New England Magazine, new series, vol. 



1 68 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

ix, p. 158, says of her: "Among the soloists of the Handel and 
Haydn Society (Boston) was one who has hardly been excelled 
since, and who gave the greatest delight. This was Anna Stone, 
a Boston girl, who in oratorio would be to-day the peer of any 
female vocalist. 

To have heard her sing T Know that my Redeemer Liveth,' 
and 'Let the Bright Seraphim,' the latter accompanied by a 
trumpet, by John Bartlett, I feel even now to have been a great 
privilege. Miss Stone was a tall, pale girl, with brilliant eyes, 
and as she sang, she seemed transfigured by the spirit of the 
music she was rendering." 

CHILDREN. 

435. i. Anna 7 , b. July 30, 1858, N. Y. ; d. Apr. 24, 1898. [ tw - ns 

436. ii. Ellen 7 , b. July 30, 1858, N. Y. ; d. Aug. 8, 1859. ) 

437. iii. Grace 7 , b. Nov. 30, i860, N. Y. ; d. Mar. 20, 1865. 

438. iv. Laura 7 , b. June 20, 1862, N. Y. 

-\- 439. v. Ellsworth 7 , b. June 6, 1864, N. Y. 



247. HARVEY 6 (Wyllys", Timothy*, Abial 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). 
Farmer in North Guilford. He married Jane, dau. of John and 
Catherine Coulter of Guilford. She was b. in England, Oct. 
10, 1838; d. of pneumonia, Feb. 1, 1887. She and her husband 
are both buried in Alderbrook Cemetery. 

CHILDREN. 

_|- 440. i. Frederick Wyllys 7 , b. June 28, i860, at No. Guilford. 
-)- 441. ii. Harry Lewis 7 , b. Jan. 13, 1862, at No. Guilford. 

442. iii. Jennie Louise 7 , b. July 21, 1863, at No. Guilford. 

443. iv. Fannie Laura 7 , b. Apr. 16, 1865, at No. Guilford. 

She married Jan. 30, 1892, Henry H. Baldwin of 
Bran ford. 

CHILD. 

I. EHot Harrison, b. Aug. 15, 1895; d. Nov. 2, 1901. 



249. CHAUNCEY SMITHSON 7 (Samuel W.\ Samuel SS, 
Aaron*, Jared'\ Joseph 2 , John 1 ), of York, and Rochester, Steuben 
Co., la., Clearlake and So. Milford, Ind, and Ransome, Hills- 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 169 

dale Co., Mich. He married, Feb. 16, 1840, in New London, O., 
Sarah Day. She was b. May 3, 1816, in Athens, Greene Co., 
N. Y., and is still living (1904) at Ransome, Hillsdale Co., 
Mich. 

CHILDREN. 

444. i. Sarah (Sally) Winans 8 , b. Sept. 14, 1841, in 

Rochester, O. ; d. Aug. 29, 1877, in Ransome, 
Mich. She married Jan. 11, 1869, Bernard P. 
McKenny, d. 1900. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Sarah J., b. Nov. 9, 1870, at Ransome, Mich. 

2. Catherine N., b. Jan. 27, 1871, at Ransome, Mich. 

3. Mary A., b. Sept. 4, 1874, at Wright, Mich. 

4. James P. Elliott, b. May 9, 1876, at Wright, Mich. 

445. ii. Eunice S. 8 , b. at Rochester, Jan. 23, 1843. She mar- 

ried June 3, 1862, Benjamin Chase, b. in New 
York ; d. May 10, 1883, in Mattoon, 111. Lived at 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Marcia, b. Feb. 12, 1863 ; m. first, Jan. 19, 1883, Albert Frey, 

who d. Aug. 20, 1888 ; m. second, Oct. 5, 1895, Thomas McQuirk. 
Child: 
a. Nellie, b. Dec. 29, 1903. 

2. Kittie F., b. June 15, 1866; m. July 16, 1888, Frank Anderson of 

Grand Rapids, Mich. 

446. iii. Amanda Malvina 8 , b. at Rochester, Nov. 18, 1844. 

She married, Mar. 15, 1863, Palmer Lindsay, b. 
July 6, 1828, at Amherst, Erie Co., N. Y. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Eulalie (Phelee), b. Dec. 9, 1864; m. Sept. 1, 1889, Edward 

Roney, b. Feb. 26, 1859. Children: 

a. Charles P., b. Aug. 24, 1890. 

b. Earnest Hugh, b. Aug. 9, 1892. 

c. Reuben S., b. Sept. 10, 1895. 

d. Reginald, b. Dec. 27, 1898; d. Jan. 15, 1899. 

e. Harold E., and (f) Hazel E. (twins), b. Feb. 8, 1904. 

2. Charles H., b. Mar. 22, 1867; d. May 1, 1872. 

3. Eugene, b. Jan. 14, 1869 ; d. June 29, 1869. ) twJns 

4. Irene, b. Jan. 14, 1869; d. Feb. 14, 1869. ) 



17° DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

5. Alice Bertha, b. Sept. 19, 1873; m. Sept. 20, 1888, Peter Roney 

(brother of Edward), b. Dec. 9, i860. Child: 
a. Inez May, b. Feb. 19, 1897. 

6. Agnes May, b. July 20, 1875; m. Apr. 20, 1893, Wiley A. Carmack. 

Children : 

a. Alice Caroline, b. May 18, 1896. 

b. Anna Marie, b. Mar. 25, 1898. 

c. Amy, b. Aug. 19, 1899. 

7. Sylvia Ida, b. Mar. 25, 1877; a teacher. 

8. Ethel Emma, b. Dec. 31, 1879; m. Gustave Thonert. Children: 

a. Augusta Evelina, b. Oct. 18, 1900. 

b. Alice Bertha, b. Mar. 15, 1902. 

c. Albert H., b. Feb. 18, 1904. 

447. iv. Adelia Jane 8 , b. June 30, 1847 5 d. Aug. 23, 1879. 

448. v. Agnes M. 8 , b. Rochester, May 12, 1850. She married 

Feb. 10, 1876, Abram Greenwood, of English 
parentage, lived at Coldvvater, Mich. 

CHILD. 

1. Elliott Abram, b. June 25, 1889. 



449 
450 

451 
452 

453 



vi. Alice J. 8 , b. Rochester, O., Dec. 11, 185 1. Lives 

(1904) Ransome, Mich, 
vii. Mary E. 8 , b. So. Milford, Ind., Jan. 1, 1854. Lives 

(1904) Ransome, Mich, 
viii. Helen M. 8 , b. Clearlake, Ind., Jan. 11, 1856; d. May 

19, 1857. 
ix. Samuel J. 8 , b. Clearlake, Ind. July 13, 1858. Lives 

(1904) Ransome, Mich. 
x. Chauncey Smithson A. L. 8 , b. Clearlake, Ind., Apr. 

2, 1861. Lives (1904) Ransome, Mich. 



254. SAMUEL HARVEY 7 (Samuel W.\ Samuel S.\ Aaron*, 
Jared z , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer and carpenter in Steuben Co., 
Ind. He enlisted in Co. K. 44th Reg. Ind. Vol. Inf. and served 
in the Civil War with distinction two and a half years. He was 
a genial man, of noble character and splendid abilities. He 
married, Jan. 1, 1846, at Scott, Ind., (Mrs.) Jane Smiley 
Edwards, b. Mar. 18, 1821. Mrs. Edwards had a son, Danford 
G. Edwards, b. Jan. 31, 1842; killed Dec. 27, 1863, near Dres- 
den, Tenn. He was in Co. E. 7th Ind. Cavalry. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 171 



CHILDREN. 



+ 454. i. John Harvey 8 , b. Nov. 26, 1846. 

455. ii. Clark Robert 8 , b. Sept. 9, 1848; d. in infancy. 

456. iii. Emma Celestia 8 , b. Dec. 9, 1850. She married June 

26, 1870, at Mancelona, Mich., Harvey James 
Wilson. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Jennie Josephine, b. Apr. 4, 1871 ; m. Feb. 24, 1901, Sylvester 

Morton Richmond, b. Oct. 26, 1865. 

2. Cora May. 

457. iv. Frances Mary 8 , b. May 27, i860. She married Sept. 

2, 1874, John Clark, who died in Arkansas of 
yellow fever, July 15, 1880. 

After the death of her husband, she taught school, entered 
college at Angola, graduated in 1888, studied music, graduated 
National School, Detroit, 1893 ; New Schools method, Chicago, 
1900. She was Supervisor of Music, Monmouth, 111., 1891 ; 
Ottumwa, la., 1896-1903; now (1904) supervisor in Mil- 
waukee, Wis. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Maggie Myrtle, b. Nov. 22, 1877; d. Oct. 13, 1878. 

2. John Carl Elliott, b. Feb. 23, 1881 ; grad. Ottumwa (Iowa) High 

School 1899; now (1904) in senior year at Drake Univ., 

Des Moines, Iowa. 



256. JOSEPH CANFIELD 7 (Samuel W. G , Samuel S. 5 , Aaron\ 
Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer in Fremont, Ind. He 
married, Dec. 18, 1854, at Reading, Mich., Sarah Garrett, b. in 
Berks Co., Pa., Dec. 20, 1831. 

CHILDREN. 

458. i. Josephine 8 , married Francis Story. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Heman. 

2. Jeanette. 
3- Guy. 

4. Ola. 

5. J. C. and G. C. (twins). 



172 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

459. ii. Jeanette 8 , b. Dec. 20, 1858 ; d. Apr. 27, 1876. 
+ 460. iii. Frank F. 8 , b. May 20, 1862, at York, Ind. 
+ 461. iv. John Harvey 8 , b. Jan. 24, 1866, at York, Ind. 

462. v. Jessie 8 , b. Oct. 24, 1871, at York, Ind. She married, 
Feb. 14, 1893, Clem C. Brattin. 

CHILDREN. 

i. George Elliott, b. Nov. 20, 1893, at Hamilton, Ind. 

2. Bernice Mae, b. Oct. 4, 1895, at Greenwich, O. 

3. Sarah Blanche, b. Mar. 30, 1898, at Greenwich, O. 

4. Ralph Waldo, b. Mar. 9, 1901, at Fremont, Ind. 



258. JOHN HARMON 7 (Samuel W.\ Samuel S. 5 , Aaron*, Jared 3 , 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer in Angola, Ind. He married, Feb. 
19, 1854, Avis Naomi La Rue (of French parentage), b. Jan. 
26, 1831, in Cayuga Co., N. Y. 

children. 

+ 463. i. George Perry 8 , b. Jan. 5, 1856. 

+ 464. ii. Granville 8 , b. May 7, 1858. 

465. iii. Harriet Elizabeth 8 , b. Jan. 29, i860. She married 
first, May 28, 1878, Rev. Myron M. Gleason, b. Apr. 
7, 1847 ! d. Feb. 25, 1887. He was a minister of the 
Christian Church, a finely educated and powerful 
preacher. She married second, Mar. 13, 1895, 
Charles A. Reed, b. Sept. 3, 1856. 

CHILDREN, BY FIRST HUSBAND. 

1. Roy Elliott, lives at Three Rivers, Mich., b. Mar. 5, 1879; 

m. Feb. 15, 1897, Gertrude Buck, b. Feb. 17, 1878. Child: 
a. Harriett Lucille, b. Aug. 6, 1903. 

2. Maude M., b. Feb. 15, 1881. 

3. Mabel Naomi, b. Nov. 23, 1882. 

4. Chilla, b. Aug. 11, 1884; d. Aug. 13, 1884. 

5. Bernice Marion, b. July 7, 1887. 

+ 466. iv. Henry Ellsworth 8 , b. Mar. 10, 1862. 
+ 467. v. Alphonso Byron 8 , b. July 2, 1865. 
+ 468. vi. John Fremont 8 , b. May 10, 1871. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 1 73 

260. WILLIAM SIDNEY 7 (William W .\ Samuel S. 5 , Aaron*, 
J area 1 *, Joseph 2 , John 1 ) was born in North Hampton, Mont- 
gomery Co., N. Y. In 1819 his parents removed to Ballston 
Spa, New York, and remained there till 1836. In 1833 he 
became school teacher in Rochester in a free school supported 
by General Riley. At this time the slavery agitation was the 
question of the day. The first anti-slavery convention ever 
held in New York State met in 1835 at Utica, and Mr. Elliott 
was a delegate to that meeting. After this he became fully 
imbued with the idea that the great West was the place for the 
full fruition of free thoughts and actions and where the death 
of slavery would be worked out. He soon after removed to 
Michigan, locating at Niles. Here he became familiar with 
the fact that the negroes were helping themselves to freedom, 
and he lent a helping hand on every opportunity, so that two 
hundred escaped bondsmen via the Indiana, Ohio and Michigan 
underground railway had to thank Mr. Elliott, whose section of 
the road covered a distance of twenty miles, for aid rendered 
them in their flight. About the time the Civil War broke out 
he removed to Chicago and later to Quincy, 111. Later he 
again returned to Chicago, where he continued to reside, an 
honored and respected citizen, up to the day of his death. 

He is buried at Niles, Mich. A beautiful granite monument, 
erected by his son, A. R. Elliott, adorns the cemetery lot, which 
was cleared out of the primeval forest by himself in early man- 
hood. There also repose the remains of his father and mother, 
his wives and several children. He married first, Oct. 1, 1836, 
Louisa Carrington of Huron, O., b. May 8, 181 1 ; d. Sept. 17, 
1837. He married second, Nov. 30, 1844, at Cleveland, O., 
Caroline Matilda Morse, b. May 5, 1823, at Wells, Me. ; d. Dec. 
28, 185 1 ; buried at Niles, Mich. He married third, May 17, 
1854, at Phelps, N. Y., Arthaline Howell, b. Dec. 22, 1830, at 
Newark, N. Y. ; still living (1904). 

CHILD, BY FIRST WIFE. 

469. i. Louisa Carrington 8 , b. Sept. 13, 1837 ; d. Mar. 17, 
1844. 



174 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

CHILDREN, BY SECOND WIFE. 

470. ii. Elbridge Gerry 8 , died. 

471. iii. Daniel Morse 8 , died. 

-f 472. iv. William Sidney Jr. 8 , b. May 1, 1849, at Niles, Mich. 
+ 473. v. Ashbel Riley 8 , b. Oct. 29, 1851, at Niles, Mich. 

children, by third wife. 

474- vi. Charles Sumner 8 , b. Mar. 3, 1855 ; d. Jan. 27, 1856. 

475. vii. Caroline Louisa 8 , b. Jan. 15, 1858. She has been 

for over twenty years Reference Librarian in the 
Chicago Public Library. 

476. viii. Edward Everett 8 , b. Feb. 8, 1861, at Quincy, 111. 

He is (1904) a merchant in Chicago. 

477. ix. Nellie 8 , b. Aug. 10, 1864; d- July 27, 1866. 



264. JOHN WILLIAMS 7 (John Aaron 6 , Samuel S.*, Aaron 4 , 
Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ), watchmaker, etc., at Eutaw, Green 
Co., Ala. His parents designed him for the ministry, but he 
preferred to learn his father's trade, and on the offer of a liberal 
salary went to Tuscaloosa, Ala. There he became interested 
in religion and began to study for the ministry while working 
at his trade. On account of weakness of the eyes he was 
obliged to give up his design, and established himself in busi- 
ness in Eutaw. He married first, Jan. 25, 1843, Louisa Eliza- 
beth Towner, b. in Wallingford, Vt., Apr. 20, 1815; d. Mar. 
25, 1853. He married second, Feb. 4, 1858, Blanche Smith 
Chapman. 

children, by first wife. 

478. i. Luella Elizabeth 8 , b. Feb. 17, 1844, at Eutaw, Ala. 
She married, Apr. 25, 1866, Charles F. W. Brown, 
b. Dec. 29, 1830, at Salem, Mass. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Elizabeth Millet, b. Oct. 21, 1867, at Brooklyn, N. Y. ; m. Oct. 8, 
1890, Henry Searing. Children : 

a. Luella Elizabeth, b. June 7, 1892. 

b. Emily Morton, b. Mar. 26, 1896, at Brooklyn. 

2. Louisa Towner, b. Sept. 17, 1869; d. Jan. 14, 1881. 

3. Luella Belle, b. Jan. 1, 1871, at Brooklyn. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 175 

479. ii. Henry Towner 8 , b. July 29, 1846, at Eutaw, Ala. ; d. 
April, 1865. 
-f 480. iii. Charles Norman 8 , b. Jan. 15, 1849, at Eutaw, Ala. 



266. HENRY 7 (John Aaron 6 , Samuel S. 5 Aaron*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , 
John 1 ). Merchant of Bridgeport. He received a classical 
education, and designed to study a profession ; but from lame- 
ness he relinquished his plans, and engaged in merchandizing 
at Gaylord's Bridge in company with George Heath. He 
married, Oct. 14, 1850, Anna, dau. of Daniel and Rosanna 
Gaylord, b. at Gaylordsville, Conn., Aug. 12, 1818; d. Mar. 3, 
1886. 

CHILDREN. 

481. i. Anna Grace 8 , b. Aug. 24, 1852 ; d. May 27, 1872. 
-f 482. ii. Henry Gaylord 8 , b. Dec. 2, 1859, at Bridgeport, Conn. 



267. JOSEPH BAILEY 7 (John Aaron 6 , Samuel S. 5 , Aaron*, 
Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He graduated from the Yale Medical 
School. Practiced in New Hartford, Conn. In 1848 he was 
appointed assistant physician at the Trenton (N. J.) State 
Lunatic Asylum. He subsequently practiced medicine in Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., and became a leading homeopath. He was for 
many years a member and earnest supporter of the Church of 
the Messiah in Brooklyn, and at the time of his death was junior 
warden of the church. He married, at Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 
21, 1854, Elizabeth Annette Mullikin, b. in Philadelphia Dec. 
25, 1828 ; d. Nov. 4, 1892. 

children. 

483. i. Delia Marie 8 , b. Mar. 14, 1857. Lives (1904) New 

York. 

484. ii. Cora Bell 8 , b. Nov. 25, 1859, at Brooklyn, N. Y. 

She married Oct. 18, 1888, in Brooklyn, Frank 
Tilton Morris. 

485. iii. Emily Josephine 8 , b. Aug. 28, 1864; married June 19, 

1890, at Brooklyn, Charles Addison Miller. 

486. iv. Bessie 8 , b. Dec. 12, 1871. She married in Brooklyn, 

Apr. 16, 1895, Harry Nevins Dunham. 



176 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

268. SAMUEL WORCESTER 7 (John A.\ Samuel S. 5 , Aaron*, 
Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ) He came to Salisbury, Conn., at the 
age of twenty-one years. He was a tanner and currier for 
about fifteen years, and afterwards was a harness-maker until 
1882. Since then he has been successfully engaged as a 
nurseryman and small fruit grower. He married in Salis- 
bury, Oct. 10, 1848, Lucy Ann, dau. of Henry Belcher. She 
was born Mar. 10, 1824, and is still living (1904). 

CHILDREN. 

487. i. Mary Anna 8 , b. Nov. 17, 1851, at Salisbury, Conn. 

488. ii. Lucy Emma 8 , b. May 9, 1855, at Salisbury, Conn. ; d. 

May 21, 1874. 
+ 489. iii. Robert Samuel 8 , b. Oct. 24, 1868, in Salisbury, Conn. 



270. CHARLES FREDERICK 7 (John A.\ Samuel S.\ Aaron 4 , 
Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Merchant of Brooklyn. He went 
west for his health and died in Kalamazoo, Mich., where he is 
buried in Mount Hope Cemetery. He married, Sept. 13, 1852, 
Jane Alletta Miles, b. Sept. 3, 1833. After Mr. Eliot's death 
she married' George Hunt, who died. She is living (1904) in 
Brooklyn. 

CHILDREN. 

490. i. Marion Miles 8 , b. July 11, 1853, in Brooklyn ; d. Aug. 

22, 1854. 

491. ii. Charles Henry 8 , b. July 10, 1855, in Brooklyn; d. 

Aug. 2, 1900. He married first, Nov. 23, 1881, 
Elinor Johnson, who died Feb. 16, 1883 ; second, 
May 6, 1888, Dora Snow. 

492. iii. Jennie Isabelle 8 , b. Apr. 8, 1857, in Brooklyn. 

When a young girl she learned the printer's trade, and went 
to Hillsdale, Mich., to take charge of the college paper. She 
married, at Paw Paw, Mich., July 18, 1883, Rev. Samuel Solon 
Schnell, b. at Liverpool, O., graduated from the theological 
department of Hillsdale Coll. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Charles Elliott, b. Aug. 9, 1885, at Leslie, Mich. 

2. Viola Katharine, b. July 17, 1887, at Leroy, O. 

3. Winifred Amant, b. July 19, 1889, at Potter Centre, N. Y. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 177 

273. SAMUEL W. 7 {Joseph Benjamin , Samuel S. 5 , Aaron 4 , 
Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Clothier. He married, Oct. 13, 1838, 
Phoebe, daughter of Whitney Park of Sand Lake, N. Y. 

CHILDREN. 

493. i. Hannah 8 , b. Dec. 13, 1842. 

494. ii. Anna Park 8 , b. Sept. 30, 1844. 

495. iii. Almira H. 8 , b. July 26, 1846. 



278. SAMUEL HURD 7 (Isaac 6 , Samuel S. 5 , Aaron*, Jared 3 , 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer in Columbia, S. Dakota. He mar- 
ried, Nov. 27, 1869, at Ypsilanti, Mich., Tamar Speechley of 
Ann Arbor. 

CHILDREN. 

496. i. Norma A. 8 , b. May 6, 1872; d. Mar. 23, 1878. 

497. ii. Raymond S. 8 , b. Sept. 10, 1874. 

498. iii. Geneva Bessie 8 , b. Sept. 1, 1877. 

499. iv. Imogene Jennie 8 , b. May 11, 1882. 



292. CHARLES JARED 7 (Henry*, Aaron 5 , Aaron*, Jared 3 , 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ), Pulaski County, Ark. He married Apr. 14, 
1846, Elizabeth, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Stuart of 
Kentucky. 

CHILD. 

500. Mary Christina 8 , b. Jan. 25, 1847. 



299. CHARLES LUCIUS 7 (Homer 6 , John 5 , Nathan*, Jared 3 , 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer at Goldenrod, Pa. He married, at 
Lindon, Pa., Aug. 22, 1873, Hannah E. Kline, b. Nov. 22, 1854, 
at Charlestown, Clinton Co., Pa. 

CHILD. 

501. i. Carrie 8 , b. June 22, 1874, at Haneyville, Pa. She mar- 
ried, Nov. 5, 1892, at Johnsonburg, Frank Oliver 
Bonnell, b. Nov. 2, 1868, at Waterville, Pa. 

CHILD. 

i. H. Elliott, b. Oct. 9, 1894, at Johnsonburg, Pa. 



301. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS 7 (John 6 , John 5 , Nathan*, Jared 3 , 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer at Onarga, 111. He married, Jan. 
19, 1870, at Eagle, 111., Mary Isabell Galloway. 



178 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

CHILDREN. 

502. i. Frances Julia r , b. Jan. 20, 1871 ; d. Aug. 17, 1872. 
+ 503. ii. Harry Cook 8 , b. Apr. 4, 1873. 

504. iii. Clara Bell 8 , b. July 15, 1877. She married, Jan. 19, 

1898, in Danforth Township, Philip M. Amerman. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Richard Elliott, b. Oct. 12, 1898. 
2. Robert Philip, b. Aug. 22, 1900. 

505. iv. Roy G. 8 , b. Mar. 14, 1881. 

506. v. Ruth 8 , b. Aug. 23, ii 



302. HOMER 7 (John*, John 5 , Nathan*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). 
Retired farmer, Kankakee, 111. He married, Feb. 4, 1873, at 
Farm Ridge, Fannie Crawford. 

children. 

507. i. Arthur James 8 , b. at Gilman, 111., Oct. 18, 1875 ; 

graduated from Northwestern University at Evans- 
ton, 111., in 1902. He took up work as secretary of 
the Y. M. C. A. ; married, Oct. 8, 1902, Marie Louise 
Kemon of Washington, D. C. 

508. ii. Ethel Jane 8 , b. Sept. 17, 1878. She is a musician. 



305. ARTHUR 7 (John*, John 5 , Nathan 4 , Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). 
Farmer and shipper of live stock at Wilsman, 111. He married, 
Sept. 29, 1886, Nettie Hoffman. 

CHILDREN. 

509. i. Charles John 8 , b. Apr. 28, 1889. 

510. ii. Gertrude 8 , b. Mar. 4, 1891. 

511. iii. Arthur Roland 8 , b. Mar. 6, 1895. 



307. ELMER E. 7 (John*, John 5 , Nathan 4 , Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). 
Farmer at Wilsman, 111. He married, Feb. 29, 1884, at Lareica, 
111., Viola Emigh. 

children. 

512. i. Hattie 8 , b. Sept. 30, 1886. 

513. ii. Mabel 8 , b. May 14, 1889. 



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DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 1 79 

315. BURDETT JOHNSON 7 (William F.\ Matthew 5 , Nathan*, 
Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He married, Aug. 16, 1886, Belle 
Hartwell of Cattaraugus, N. Y. 

CHILD. 

514. i. William Farrand 8 , b. June 18, 1887. 



324. JARED KIRTLAND 7 (Daniel 6 , Richard J. 5 , Nathan 4 , 
Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer at Poland, O. Removed 
about 1870 to Knoxville, Iowa, where he died. He married 
Mary Jane Brown of Poland. She d. May 18, 1895. 

CHILDREN. 

515. i. James Brown 8 , b. Apr. 14, 1842 ; d. Jan. 1844. 

516. ii. Mary Jane 8 , b. Nov. 6, 1844; d. Oct. 4, 1890. She 

married, Mar. 16, 1871, Newton F. Miller. 

517. iii. Eliza Ellen 8 , b. Aug. 27, 1846. She married, Feb. 

18, 1880, Edson Dorr Dewitt, a farmer of Knox- 
ville, Iowa. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Gerald Eliot, b. Dec. 24, 1880. 

2. Mary Blanche, b. July 11, 1883. 

3. John Lamont, b. July 15, 1886. 

4- 518. iv. Henry Mansfield 8 , b. Nov. 26, 1848. 
+ 5 I 9- v - John Brown 8 , b. Jan. 2, 1852. 

520. vi. Lucy Alice 8 , b. Sept. 26, 1853 ; d. Feb. 10, 1859. 

+ 521. vii. Jared Robert 55 , b. May 12, 1856; d. Mar. 17, 1894. 



325. OSCAR FITZALLEN 7 (Daniel 6 , Richard J. 5 , Nathan', 
Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He married first, 1839, Martha 
Gillespie; second, Dec. 12, 1841, Hannah Armstrong; third, 
Mrs. Maggie Davison of Eddyville, la.; fourth, Mar. 4, 1871, 
Mrs. Harriet E. Rathbun Colvin ; fifth, Mrs. Elizabeth Shiners,/ 
living (1904). ai , *^ 

CHILD, BY FIRST WIFE. 

522. i. Martha 8 , b. 1840; d. 1865. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



CHILDREN, BY SECOND WIFE. 



+ 523. ii. Jared 8 , b. Jan. 23, 1843. 
+ 524. iii. Milton 8 , b. Jan. 23, 1846. 
+ 525. iv. John 8 , b. Aug. 3, 1855. 

526. v. Waldo E. 8 , b. Apr. 9, 1858. He is a farmer at 

Clemons, Iowa. He married, Jan. 1, 1879, Cynthia 
Bacon. 

CHILD, BY FOURTH WIFE. 

527. vi. Harriet Lovina s , b. May 20, 1872. 



332. ROBERT JUSTICE 7 (Horace 6 , Richard J. 5 , Nathan 4 , Jared 3 , 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer at Lexington, 111., where he removed 
from Ohio in 1863. He served in the Civil War in the 134th 
Reg. Vol. Inf. He married, Nov. 1, 1864, Emeline Flesher of 
Lexington. 

CHILDREN. 

+ 528. i. George Horace 8 , b. Feb. 13, 1866. 

+ 529. ii. William D. 8 , b. Mar. 8, 1868. 

530. iii. Peter W. 8 , b. Feb. 9, 1870 ; d. Oct. 27, 1902. 

531. iv. Frank L. 8 , b. July 30, 1872. 

+ 532. v. Arthur Corral 8 , b. Aug. 2, 1874. 

533. vi. Grizola B. 8 , b. Feb. 15, 1880. She married, Feb. 20, 

1902, Robert E. Vaughan of Chenoa Township, 
111. He is a farmer at Lexington, 111., extensively 
engaged in breeding fine registered stock. 

CHILD. 

1. Viola May, b. Dec. 30, 1903. 

534. vii. Alwilda May 8 , b. Nov. 1, 1882. She married, Dec. 

4, 1 901, Homer Jones of Lexington, 111. 



347. FRANK AUGUSTUS 7 (John Edward 6 , Edtvard 5 , John*, 
Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Accountant in Clinton, N. Y. He 
married Annie Carpenter of Clinton. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



535- 

536 
537 
538 
539 
540 
54i 
542 



CHILDREN, ALL BORN AT CLINTON. 

i. Mildred 8 , b. Feb. 14, 1879; m - Nov. 4, 1902, Charles 

F. Alexander, 
ii. John Edward 8 , b. Dec. 12, 1880. 
iii. Whitney 8 , b. Sept. 19, 1883. 
iv. Edna 8 , b. Sept. 3, 1885. 
v. Burton 8 , b. Aug. 24, 1887. 
vi. Helen s , b. Aug. 20, 1890. 
vii. George 8 , b. Apr. 4, 1894. 
viii. Leslie 8 , b. Jan. 1, 1898. 



348. EDWARD 7 (John Edward 6 , Edzvard 5 , John*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , 
John 1 ). Musician at Utica, N. Y. He married, Oct. 10, 1889, 
Evelyn Armstrong of Rome, N. Y. 



child. 



543. i. Edward Armstrong 8 , b. Dec. 3, 1892, at Clinton, N. Y. ; 
d. Feb. 11, 1903. 



359. GEORGE EDWIN 7 (Ely Augustus 6 , George 5 , George*, 
Jared 3 , Joseph , John 1 ). He was educated at Amherst and 
entered a business life, first at New Haven, and afterwards at 
Clinton. He was a member of the Legislature in 1853. A man 
of position and influence in town and state. Since 1872 he has 
been widely connected with educational interests as the head 
of the Board of Trustees of the "Morgan School," a largely 
endowed school at Clinton. His residence is on the spot occu- 
pied by that of his great-great-grandfather, Rev. Jared Eliot. 

He married, Sept. 25, 1844, Chloe Cornelia, dau. of David 
Redfield of Clinton, Conn., a lineal descendant of John and 
Priscilla Alden. She was born Nov. 20, 1822. 



CHILDREN. 



544. i. Mary Cornelia 8 , b. Mar. 23, 1850. 

545. ii. Grace Redfield 8 , b. Feb. 7, 1852. She married, June 

27, 1882, Henry Gustavus Rogers of Naples, Italy. 



1 82 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

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546. iii. Ely Augustus 8 , b. Mar. 18, 1854. He is engaged in 

business in New Haven, Conn., where he now 
(1904) lives. He married, Dec. 27, 1881, Ellen 
Montgomery, dau. of George and Philena (Stanley) 
Hunt of Providence, R. I. 

547. iv. George 8 , b. Aug. 12, i860; d. Feb. 20, 1861. 

548. v. George Edwin Jr. 8 , b. June 1, 1864. He graduated 

at Yale in 1886, and received the degree of A.M. for 
a post-graduate course. He then became master of 
English at the Morgan School, Clinton, of which he 
is at present (1904) the principal. 



360. HENRY AUGUSTUS 7 (Ely Augustus 6 , George 5 , George*, 
Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He was for many years a farmer on 
a large scale, but later entered a business life. He was a man 
of exemplary piety, the senior deacon of the church over which 
his ancestor, Rev. Jared Eliot, presided for many years. He 
married, Sept. 20, 1846, Phoebe Elizabeth, dau. of Levi Hull 
of Clinton. She was b. Feb. 20, 1820. 

CHILDREN. 

549. i. Susan Elizabeth 8 , b. July 27, 1848; d. Feb. 21, 1853. 
4- 550. ii. William Henry 8 , b. Feb. 13, 1853. 



361. CHARLES ALEXANDER 7 (Ely Augustus 6 , George 6 , 
George*, Jared"', Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He is (1904) in business 
in Clinton and holds a position of prominence, not only in the vil- 
lage, but in the state. He is treasurer of the Board of Trustees 
of the Morgan School, sat for one term in the Legislature, was 
subsequently placed on the Board of Prison Directors, and has 
served as County Commissioner. He married first, Aug. 14, 
1852, Adelaide Augusta, dau. of John Wilcox of Clinton. She 
died Aug. 4, 1867. He married second, June 16, 1869, Mary 
Augusta, dau of John Leffingwell of Clinton. 

CHILDREN, BY FIRST WIFE. 

551. i. Fanny Cornelia 8 , b. Nov. 8, 1853. 

552. ii. Infant Son 8 , b. Apr. 5, 1858; d. Aug. 28, 1858. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 183 

CHILDREN, BY SECOND WIFE. 

553. iii. John Leffingwell 8 , b. Aug. 22, 1870. 

554. iv. Susan Pratt 8 , b. Feb. 8, 1873. 

555. v. Sara Genevieve 8 , b. July 5, 1875. 

556. vi. May Easter Leffingwell 8 , b. Mar. 28, 1880. 



362. HENRY ACHILLES 7 (John Henry*, Achilles H. 5 , George*, 
Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He was a lawyer in New York City, 
where he died. He married, Nov. 22, 1866, Rosalia A. Fanning 
of Aquebogue, L. I. 

child. 
+ 557. i. Henry Clinton 8 , b. June 6, 1869. 



363. GEORGE F. 7 (John Henry 6 , Achilles H. 5 , George*, Jared 3 , 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He served in the Civil War with distinction, 
and afterwards settled at Stamford, Conn., where he now 
(1904) lives. He married, Sept. 1, 1870, Mary E. Lockwood 
of Stamford. 

children. 

558. i. Eva Margaretta 8 , b. Feb. 8, 1873. She married, Nov. 

10, 1891, George Elmer Jones of Stamford. 

CHILD. 

1. Miriam Eliot, b. Oct. 25, 1892. 

559. ii. Rosalia Adele 8 , b. Jan. 28, 1876. She married, Nov. 

6, 1902, Joseph H. Cook of Stamford. 

CHILD. 

1. Dorothy Elizabeth, b. Nov. 4, 1903. 



369. GEORGE AUGUSTUS 7 (William Horace, 6 William 5 , 
Nathaniel 4 , AbiaP, Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Merchant in New York 
City and afterwards farmer in Newburgh, N. Y. He married 
first, May 23, 1849, Harriet Reeves, dau. of Hon. John W. 



184 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Brown of Newburgh. She was born May 23, 1830; d. June 
9, 1850. He married second, Jan. 4, i860, at Newburgh, 
Harriette Rode Francis, b. Aug. 5, 1830, in New York. 

CHILDREN. 

560. i. Francis 8 , b. Nov. 13, i860; d. Nov. 13, 1862. 

561. ii. William Horace 8 , b. Feb. 16, 1862. He married, 

Oct. 18, 1893, at Benton Harbor, Mich., Mary J. 
Fairchild. 

562. iii. Gertrude A. 8 , b. Nov. 3, 1865. She is (1904) a 

trained nurse in New York City. 

563. iv. George Augustus 8 , b. Dec. 6, 1867 ; d. Nov. 7, 1868. 



371. WILLIAM HORACE 7 (William Horace 6 , William 5 , 
Nathaniel 4 , Abial 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). A.B. Yale 1844; A.M. 
and LL.B. Yale 1847. Lawyer in New Haven. 

He took high honors in college ; was a Phi Beta Kappa and 
a Skull and Bones man. After his admission to the Bar he 
began the practice of law, and married in 1849. He is 
described by those who remember him as an unusually attractive 
and promising young man, bound to achieve success and make 
himself a name. He was an active worker in the church and 
superintendent of St. Paul's Sunday School. His daughter, 
the editor of this revision, has many beautiful tributes to his 
character in her possession. But alas ! He died of yellow fever 
in the West Indies, whither he had gone to recover from an 
attack of inflammatory rheumatism, Dec. 8, 1852. Such is the 
outline of the short career of one who, though early called, had 
accomplished much. 

Through the compilation of the "Genealogy of the Eliot 
Family," published after his death by his father (211) and 
others of the family, he placed himself in the forefront of early 
American genealogists, and thereby rendered a service to his 
family which they recognize in this Revised Edition by placing 
his portrait as the frontispiece. 

He married, June 5, 1849, Sarah Frances Sawyier, daughter 
of Nathaniel and Pamela (Anderson) Sawyier of Cincinnati, O. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 1 85 

Nathaniel Sawyier was one of the leading- lawyers of that 
city in its early days — a descendant of Deacon Moses Sawyier 
of Salisbury, N. H., and a second cousin of Daniel Webster. 
Pamela Anderson's ancestors came from Pennington, N. J., 
and were among the first settlers of Kentucky. She lived to 
the ripe old age of ninety-six. Mrs. Sallie Elliot later married 
Lebeus C. Chapin of New Haven (Yale 1852) and had by him 
four children. 

CHILDREN OF WILLIAM HORACE AND SARAH SAWYIER ELLIOT, 
ALL BORN IN NEW HAVEN. 

564. i. William Horace 8 , b. June 5, 1850; d. Aug. 30, 1850. 

565. ii. George Augustus 8 , b. Sept. 22, 185 1 ; d. Aug. 1, 1852. 

566. iii. Wilimena Hannah 8 , b. Jan. 30, 1853 ; A.B. Vassar 

1872 ; A.M. Vassar 1877 ; M.D., Med. Coll. N. Y. 
Infirmary 1877. 

She was born in her grandfather's house in New Haven, and 
lived there until her mother married again in 1859. She was 
a delicate child, and did not go to school regularly until she was 
ten years old, but studied Latin and mathematics with her step- 
father, who was then tutor at Yale. In 1866 Dr. Chapin's 
health being broken by the War of the Rebellion, and scholastic 
pursuits being interdicted, the family moved to Kalamazoo, 
Mich., whence, in 1868, at the age of fifteen, Wilimena went to 
Vassar College, which had been opened three years previously. 
She was poet of her class for the last three years, and had both 
a Class day and a Commencement appointment, receiving also 
(in later years, when a Vassar Chapter was inaugurated) the 
Phi Beta Kappa. After a year's travel in California and a half 
year's post-graduate course at Vassar, she began the study of 
medicine in New York City at the Woman's College of the New 
York Infirmary, and was thus one of the medical pioneers of 
her sex. She was the assistant of Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi 
for two years in Materia Medica. She graduated in the spring 
of 1877, and in Kalamazoo, Dec. 26, 1877, married Justin 
Edwards Emerson, formerly of the Hawaiian Islands, a graduate 
of Williams College 1865; H. C. Med. School 1868; and the 
son of John S. Emerson and Ursula Newell, early missionaries 
to the Islands. After a year and a half in the old world, Dr. 



186 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

and Mrs. Emerson chose Detroit as their home and settled there 
in October, 1880. 

Mrs. Emerson is actively identified with the social, philan- 
thropic and religious interests of her adopted city, is a Daughter 
of the Revolution, a Colonial Dame, and State Chairman of 
the Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors, of which she 
has six in her ancestry. She had the honor of delivering a 
poem at the first Eliot gathering at Guilford in 1875 and again 
at the Natick reunion in 1901. 

CHILDREN. 

i. Paul Eliot Emerson, b. July 14, 1880, at Kalamazoo, Mich.; 
graduated at Williams College 1902; in business in Detroit. 

2. Philip Law Emerson, b. Nov. 7, 1882, in Detroit; student in 

mechanical engineering at Cornell University. 

3. Ralf de Pomeroy Emerson, b. June 8, 1885, in Detroit; student 

at Williams College. 



373. LEWIS ROSSITER 7 (Charles 6 , William 5 , Nathaniel*, 
Abial 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer in Guilford. He married 
first, Dec. 5, 1847, Fanny Griswold, b. Oct. 27, 1823 ; d. Dec. 
24, 1856. He married second, Nov. 17, 1858, Catherine, dau. of 
Sherman and Anna (Griswold) Graves, b. May 16, 1824. 

CHILD, BY FIRST WIFE. 

567. i. Fanny Maria 8 , b. Mar. 26, 1853, in Guilford. She 

married, June 11, 1885, Herbert L. Benton. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Eliot Herbert, b. Sept. 16, 1889. 

2. Ruth Elizabeth, b. Oct. 15, 1892. 

CHILDREN, BY SECOND WIFE. 

568. ii. Mary Elizabeth 8 , b. Apr. 27, i860. 
+ 569. iii. Edward 8 , b. Oct. 14, 1861. 



376. CHARLES MORGAN 7 (Charles*, William 5 , Nathaniel*, 
Abial 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Mechanic in Meriden. He married 
first, July 20, 1847, at Meriden, Caroline E., dau. of Benjamin 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 187 

Upson. She was b. Mar. 14, 1826; d. Sept. 21, 1872. He 
married second, Nov. 15, 1877, Mrs. Mary J. (Fenn) Cowdrey. 
She was b. Sept. 1, 1833. 

CHILDREN, BY FIRST WIFE. 

570. i. William Nathaniel 8 , b. Apr. 28, 1854, at Meriden. 

571. ii. Caroline Redfield 8 , of Springfield, Mass., b. Apr. 1, 

1864, at Detroit, Mich. 
+ 572. iii. Benjamin Upson 8 , b. May 25, 1867, at Detroit, Mich. 



379. JOHN 7 (George Augustus 6 , William 5 , Nathaniel- 1 , AbiaP, 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He married first, May 18, 1854, at Geneva, 
N. Y., Eliza Johnson of Pittsburg, Pa., b. 1832 ; d. Apr. 20, 
1861. He married second, Mrs. Elizabeth N. Trissler, widow 
of Dr. Trissler of Buffalo and dau. of Joseph Kelsey. She was 
buried May 6, 1898, at Erie, Pa. 

children, by first wife. 

573. i. Sarah Mariah 8 , b. Dec. 31, 1855, at Erie, Pa. She 

married, Dec. 23, 1880, Harry Richards, a farmer. 
Lives (1904) at Perley, Minn. 

CHILDREN. 

■1. John Eliot, b. Nov. 10, 1881, at Fargo, N. D. 

2. John Stevens, b. June 16, 1886; d. Feb. 17, 1891. 

3. Ruth Eliot, b. Oct. 20, 1897, at Perley, Minn. 

574. ii. Ruth Rossiter 8 , b. Apr. 6, i860. She married, Apr. 

8, 1884, at Erie, Pa., George Tibbals Jarvis, b. Aug. 
26, 1859, in New York City. 

575. iii. George Augustus 8 , b. Apr. 14, 1861 ; d. Jan. 16, 1865. 



383. REUBEN THOMAS 7 (Richard Samuel 6 , Reuben 5 , Wyllys\ 
Abial 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). School teacher. He married first, 
Jan. 25, 1863, at Brooklyn, O., Ann M. Spence, b. in England, 
d. Feb. 8, 1883. He married second, Feb. 21, 1884, at North 
Olmstead, O., Ellen L. Henry. 



1 88 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

CHILDREN, BY FIRST WIFE. 

+ 576. i. Archie H. 8 , b. Nov. 17, 1863, at Brighton, O. 
+ 577. ii. Will Nelson 8 , b. Jan. 27, 1869; d. Aug. 8, 1901. 
578. iii. Albert Spence 8 , b. Sept. 8, 1870, at No. Olmstead ; d. 
Aug. 5, 1901. 

He graduated in medicine at the Western Reserve University 
in 1892. He was appointed house physician at St. Vincent's 
Hospital and remained there until 1893. He had an extensive 
general practice, and was fast winning an excellent reputation 
as a physician and surgeon when he died. 



388. WILLIAM PEEK 7 (Nelson James 6 , Reuben 5 , Wyllys 4 , 
AbiaP, Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Was educated for college, but owing 
to financial reverses was obliged to go into business early. 
During many years he was in the dry goods business, both in 
the country and in New York. Later he became secretary of 
the United States Mortgage Co., later the United States Mort- 
gage and Trust Co. of New York City. He retired in 1903. 
He was a member of the Seventh Regiment Militia of the State 
of New York and was in the Civil War. He has lived at 
Rutherford, N. J., for many years, and has been School Trustee, 
and Warden and Vestryman of Grace Episcopal Church. He 
married Sarah Agnes Love, dau. of Thomas and Sarah 
(McGown) Love. She was b. Dec. 5, 1835. Thomas Love 
was born in Salisbury, England, and Sarah (McGown) Love 
in Paisley, Scotland. 

children. 
• 579. i. Grace Love 8 , b. Sept. 14, 1865. 

580. ii. Thomas Nelson 8 , b. Jan. 31, 1867 ; d. June 1, 1872. 

581. iii. Agnes Elizabeth 8 , b. Mar. 22, 1869; d. July 7, 1872. 

582. iv. Kate Condit 8 , b. July 3, 1872; d. Feb. 27, 1875.$ 
-f 583. v. William 8 , b. Jan. 28, 1875. 

584. vi. Ellsworth 8 , b. Dec. 25, 1877. 



393. SAMUEL 7 (Nelson James 6 , Reuben 5 , Wyllys 4 , AbiaP, 
Joseph 2 , Johu^). He married Sarah C. Shott of Carbondale, 
Pa., b. Nov. 16, 1846. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 1 89 

CHILDREN. 

585. i. Mabel 8 , b. Aug. 4, 1878; d. Jan. 27, 1879. 

586. ii. Bessie 8 , b. Apr. 15, 1880. She married, June 19, 1901, 

William Locke of Cranford, N. J., b. Mar. 13, 1869. 

587. iii. Maude 8 , b. Oct. 27, 1882. 

588. iv. Josephine 8 , b. Oct. 26, 1885. 



395. HENRY WOOD 7 (Franklin Reuben 5 , Reuben 5 , Wyllys\ 
AbiaP, Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Artist, naturalist and literary man. 
He was educated in the Cleveland public and private schools, 
and in the Smithsonian Institute at Washington 1861-69. 
He was the artist of that establishment, and the private secre- 
tary to Joseph Henry, its Director, 1861-72. He was 
the artist of the United States Geological Survey, 1869-71 ; 
U. S. Special Commissioner to the Seal Islands of Alaska, 
1872-74 ; and prepared the "Monograph of the Seal Islands of 
Alaska," published by the Tenth Census U. S. A. and the U. S. 
Fish Commission in 1882. He was again sent to the Seal 
Islands under act of Congress in 1890, and urged and secured 
the modus vivendi of 1891-93, which shielded the fur seal herd 
of Alaska from ruinous slaughter. 

He is the author of numerous magazine articles on the life 
and habits of wild men and animals ; also of "Our Arctic 
Province," published by Charles Scribners' Sons, New York, 
1886, and editorial and other newspaper writings, too numerous 
to mention, from 1879 to date. For thirty years he has also 
been actively engaged in fruit growing and culture at Lakewood, 
near Cleveland, O., where he now (1904) resides. He was 
secretary of the Cleveland Centennial Commission 1895-96, and 
secretary of the Municipal Association of Lakewood, 1898- 1900. 

His publications are as follows: "Report on the Prybilov 
Group, or Sea Islands of Alaska (plates), 4to, Wash. 1873"; 
"Report on the Seal Islands of Alaska, Wash. 1884, 29 plates 
and two maps, 4to, pp. 188" ; "Our Arctic Province, Alaska 
and the Sea Islands. Illustrated by many drawings from nature 
and maps. New York, 1887, 8vo, cloth decorated, pp. 473" ; 
"Report upon the present condition of the fur seal rookeries of 
the Pribilov Islands of Alaska, dated Nov. 17, 1890. Wash. 
1896, 8vo, pp. 240. Illustrated." 



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DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



He married, July 22, 1872, at St. Paul's Island, Bering Sea, 
Alaska, Alexandra Meloviedor, a Russian girl of fifteen. 



CHILDREN. 

589. i. Grace 8 , b. Mar. 19, 1873, on St. Paul's Island, Bering 

Sea, Alaska. 

590. ii. Flora 8 , b. Aug. 14, 1875, at Lakewood, O. She 

married, Sept. 19, 1900, J. N. Dodd of London, 
England. 



CHILD. 



1. Dorothy, b. in England. 



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598. 


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Marsha s , b. Dec. 10, 1877, at Lakewood. 
Frank 8 , b. May 3, 1880, at Lakewood. 
Ruth 8 , b. Sept. 17, 1883, at Lakewood. 
Edith 8 , b. Mar. 16, 1886, at Lakewood. 
Narene 8 , b. May 10, 1889, at Lakewood. 
Lionel 8 , b. Dec. 26, 1891, at Lakewood. 
John 8 , b. Jan. 19, 1893, at Lakewood. 
Louise 8 , b. Mar. 14, 1899, at Lakewood. 



402. HENRY HILL 7 (Henry Hill 6 , Andrew 5 , Wyllys\ Abial 3 , 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He served in the Civil War, First Lieutenant 
and Regimental Quartermaster, 9th N. Y. Vols., 1861, stationed 
at Newport News, Va. He was detailed on the staff of 
Brigadier-General Thomas Williams, who was killed in the 
battle of Baton Rouge, 1862, Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st 
Louisiana (white) Volunteers, stationed at New Orleans. He 
was also in charge of the Texas and Opelousas Railroad. 
Resigned in 1863. He is (1904) a merchant and broker in New 
York City. 

He married first, Jan. 28, 1864, Helen Gertrude, dau. of John 
Tyng and Ann Maria (Hyde) Adams of New York City. She 
was b. May 19, 1840; d. May 29, 1879, in Cambridge, Mass. 
He married second, Mar. 26, 1883, Mary Leavenworth, dau. 
of George S. and Laura L. (Cook) Fitch, and widow of J. 
Frank Russell. She was born Dec. 16, 1845 > d. Dec. 2 6, 1891. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 191 



CHILDREN, BY FIRST WIFE. 



599. i. Amy 8 , b. Apr. 12, 1865, in New York. 

600. ii. Helen Gertrude 8 , b. May 28, 1879, ^ n Cambridge. 

CHILDREN, BY SECOND WIFE. 

601. iii. Henry Hill 8 , b. Dec. 17, 1884. 

602. iv. Douglas Fitch Guilford 8 , b. May 2, 1887. 



407. HOWARD 7 (Charles Wyllys 6 , Andrew 5 , Wyllys*, Abial 3 , 
Joseph-, John 1 ). Railroad official. He was educated in the 
Cambridge High School and the Lawrence Scientific School of 
Harvard University, where he was graduated C.E. in 1881. 
His first active employment was as rodman in the northwestern 
part of Missouri, where, on July 5, 1880, he entered the employ 
of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Co. 

After graduation he returned to this corporation, and served 
as a clerk in various departments until Nov. 15, 1882, when he 
was appointed auditor and assistant treasurer of two branch 
lines of the same company at Keokuk, Iowa. On Jan. 1, 1887, 
he was advanced as general freight and passenger agent; and 
on May 1, 1891, was made general freight agent in St. Louis, 
Mo., for all the lines operated by this company in the State of 
Missouri. On May 1, 1902, he was elected second vice president 
of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Co., and on 
Oct. 21, 1903, was elected president and director of the Northern 
Pacific Railroad Co. 

He was thus actively engaged in railroad work for twenty- 
two years with the same corporation, and in connection with 
his work has become interested in the general development 
of the West. He has been a director in various subsidiary cor- 
porations of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Co. ; 
a member of the directory of the Union Depot Companies at 
St. Joseph, Atchison and Kansas City, and president of the St. 
Joseph Union Depot Co. For many years he has been a director 
in the St. Louis Union Trust Co. 

Mr. Elliott is a member of the Business Men's League, the 
Mercantile, Noonday, University, St. Louis, Commercial, and 
Country Clubs of St. Louis ; the Chicago and Athletic Clubs of 



192 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Chicago ; the Benton and Commercial Clubs of St. Joseph, and 
the Kansas City Club. He is also a member of the American 
Society of Civil Engineers, the American Railway Association, 
the Missouri Historical Society, and the New England Society 
of St. Louis. His residence is now at St. Paul. 

He married, Oct. 12, 1892, Janet, dau. of Derrick Algernon 
and Julia (Churchill) January of St. Louis. She was b. Sept. 
8, 1865. 

CHILDREN. 

603. i. Janet 8 , b. Oct. 17, 1893, in St. Louis. 

604. ii. Edith January 8 , b. Nov. 29, 1895, in St. Louis. 

605. iii. Howard 8 , b. Nov. 26, 1899, in St. Louis. 



410. ALEXANDER LUCIUS 7 (Alexander McG.\ Timothy 5 , 
Timothy*, Abial 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He lived on the farm on 
which he was born until 1880. He has always lived within the 
county and has been an industrious citizen, taking the usual 
interest in educational and political matters. He married, Dec. 
19, 1861, in Berlin Township, O., Emma Carrie Adams, b. Mar. 
16, 1840, in Del. Co. Lives (1904) at Marlborough Township, 
Del. Co., O. 

CHILDREN, ALL BORN AT ORANGE TOWNSHIP. 

606. i. Eddie M. 8 , b. Sept. 9, 1862 ; d. Dec. 18, 1866. 

607. ii. Eva Delia 8 , b. June 8, 1866, in Del. Co. She married, 

in 1885, Alfred T. Hiteshaw. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Julia Lulu, b. Dec. 4, 1885, at Constantia, O. 

2. Emma Frances, b. Sept. 16, 1887, at Constantia, O. 

3. Helen Margaret, b. June 23, 1904. 

608. iii. Mary Lulu 8 , b. Mar. 3, 1868; d. Sept. 14, 1882. 
+ 609. iv. Harry Eli 8 , b. Mar. 18, 1870, in Del. Co. 

+ 610. v. Herbert Luzerne 8 , b. May 31, 1874, in Del. Co. 

611. vi. John Adams 8 , b. Mar. 28, 1876, in Del. Co. He is 

a ranchman at Medora, N. D. 

612. vii. Julia Maria 8 , b. Aug. 11, 1878, in Del. Co. She 

married, Nov. 25, 1897, Harry B. Wilson. 




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DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 193 

417. EDGAR TIMOTHY 7 (Luzerne 6 , Timothy 5 , Timothy*, 
Abial 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer at Durham, Conn. He mar- 
ried, Apr. 22, 1862, Isadore, dau. of Carlos Julius and Betsy 
Byington (Camp) Woodruff, District of Columbia, and widow 
of James C. Johnson, Wetumka, Ala. She was born Dec. 17, 
1837. 

CHILD. 

613. i. Margery Byington s , b. Sept. 28, 1872. She married, 
in Southington, John Buckley Clark of Durham. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Esther Eliot, b. May 22, 1891. 

2. Kenneth Woodruff, b. Dec. 31, 1892. 

3. Gazelle Nettleton, b. Mar. 31, 1895. 

4. Edgar Luzerne, b. July 18, 1898. 

5. John Asa, b. Aug. 3, 1899 ; d. Sept. 7, 1899. 

6. Bradford Latham, b. Jan. 30, 1901. 

7. Douglass, b. Mar. 21, 1903; d. Apr. 18, 1903. 



418. JAMES KELLEY 7 (Luzerne 6 , Timothy 5 , Timothy*, Abial 3 , 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Commission merchant. He married first, 
Oct. 20, 1864, at Southington, Emma R. Cowles. He married 
second, Sophia . 

CHILD, BY FIRST WIFE. 

614. i. Harry Luzerne 8 , b. Nov. 16, 1874, in Southington. 



432. GUSTAVUS 7 (Whitney 6 , Wyllys 5 , Timothy*, Abial 3 , 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Physician. He prepared for college at the 
Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, Conn. ; graduated from 
Yale College (Academical Department) in 1877, and from the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Medical Department of 
Columbia College, New York City, in 1880. He received the 
degree of A.M. upon examination from Yale College in 1882, 
and has been engaged in the practice of medicine in New Haven, 
Conn., since Feb. 13, 1882. He was president of the New 
Haven (city) Medical Association, in 1893, and of the New 



194 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Haven County Medical Association in 1896. He represented 
the Connecticut Medical Society in the House of Delegates of 
the American Medical Association in 1904. 

He married, April 21, 1887, Mary Anne, dau. of Samuel and 
Mary C. (Potter) Forbes of New Haven. She died Nov. 30, 
1896. 

CHILDREN. 

615. i. Ruth Forbes s , b. Jan. 17, 1888, in New Haven. 

616. ii. Margaret 8 , b. Apr. 28, 1890, in New Haven. 

617. iii. Mary Forbes 8 , b. Feb. 6, 1893 ; d. Feb. 7, 1893. 

618. iv. Esther Harrison 8 , b. Aug. 22, 1895, in New Haven. 



439. ELLSWORTH 7 (Ellsworth 6 , Wyllys 5 , Timothy 4 , Abial 3 , 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Physician. A.B. Yale University 1884. M.D. 
College Physicians and Surgeons, Medical Department of 
Columbia University, New York City, 1887, from which he 
graduated the foremost in his class. Subsequently he went 
through the term of service in the New York Hospital, after 
which he studied in European capitals. Since 1889 he has been 
a physician and surgeon in New York City. He is one of the 
visiting surgeons of the Presbyterian Hospital, and also of the 
Gouverneur Hospital ; and Clinical Lecturer in Surgery and 
Demonstration in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 
New York City. 

He married, June 15, 1904, Lucy Carter, daughter of George 
Harrison Byrd of New York City. 



440. FREDERICK WYLLYS 7 (Harvey 6 , Wyllys 5 , Timothy*, 
Abial 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He married, May 13, 1891, in Trinity 
Church, Washington, Pa., Matilda Ames, dau. of Rev. Robert 
Lauder and Catherine Susan (Roberts) Mathison. She was 
born June 25, 1866. 

children. 

619. i. Frederick Wyllys 8 , b. June 6, 1892, at North Guilford. 

620. ii. Catherine Marguerite 8 , b. July 18, 1894, at North 

Guilford. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 195 

441. HARRY LEWIS 7 {Harvey*, Wyllys 5 , Timothy 4 , Abial 3 , 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Merchants' clerk at Hartford, Conn. He 
married first, Oct. 21, 1885, Florence Lillian, dau. of Samuel 
B. Hanover of New Haven. He married second, June 12, 1901, 
Emma Elizabeth, dau. of David Stevens of Hartford. She was 
b. Feb. 4, 1872. 

CHILD, BY FIRST WIFE. 

621. i. George E. 8 , b. Dec. 27, 1887. 

CHILD, BY SECOND WIFE. 

622. ii. Charles Stevens 8 , b. Mar. 11, 1904. 



454. JOHN HARVEY 8 (Samuel Harvey 7 , Samuel IV. 6 , Samuel 
S. 5 , Aaron*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer and contractor. 
When a boy of sixteen he enlisted in Co. E. 7th Ind. Vol. Cav., 
and served three years. Like most of the Elliotts, he was tall 
(six feet one inch), well proportioned, weight 180-200 pounds. 
A man of strong personality and fine mind, giving great promise. 
He died at thirty-four. 

He married, Nov. 27, 1873, at Mancelona, Mich., Matilda 
Call. She was b. at Port Huron, Mich., Feb. 14, 1853. 

CHILDREN. 

623. i. Ada Blanche 9 , b. Sept. 25, 1874, at Mancelona. She 

married, Aug. 7, 1892, at Mancelona, Albert Oswalt, 
son of Wm. and Eliza Oswalt. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Fern I., b. Aug. 24, 1895, at Mancelona. 

2. Leslie Elliott, b. Aug. 11, 1898, at Mancelona. 

624. ii. Maggie Jane 9 , b. Aug. 23, 1876, at Mancelona. She 

married, Dec. 25, 1895, at Mancelona, Casper Fleet, 
son of Robert and Ann Fleet. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Beulah, b. Dec. 18, 1896. 

2. John Oakley, b. Aug. 6, 1898. 

3. Child, b. and d. Sept. 8, 1900. 

4. Elsie Matilda, b. Aug. 7, 1901. 

625. iii. Burton Harvey 9 , b. May 31, 1878. 



196 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

460. FRANK F. s {Joseph Canfield 7 , Samuel IV 6 , Samuel S. 5 , 
Aaron*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Carpenter at York, Ind. He 
married, May 9, 1885, at Ray, Ind., May Odell. 

CHILDREN. 

626. i. Verna 9 , b. Nov. 18, 1887, at Clear Lake, Ind. 

627. ii. Nora 9 , b. Jan. 6, 1889, at York Township, Steuben Co. 



461. JOHN HARVEY 8 (Joseph Canfield 7 , Samuel IV. 6 , Samuel 
S. 5 , Aaron 4 , Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer, York Township, 
Steuben Co., Ind. He married, Feb. 16, 1893, at Delta, Fulton 
Co., O., Jennie Belle Brattin. 



CHILDREN. 



628. i. Ollie Grace 9 , b. Nov. 20, 1893. 

629. ii. Earl Richard 9 , b. Sept. 26, 1895. 

630. iii. Lloyd Hereld 9 , b. May 1, 1900. 



463. GEORGE PERRY 8 (John Harmon 7 , Samuel W 6 , Samuel 
S. 5 , Aaron*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Teacher and carpenter, 
Hebron, Neb. He married, July 18, 1885, at Salem, Ind., 
Sophronia Emerson. She was b. May 19, i860. 



CHILDREN. 



631. i. John Avery 9 , b. Nov. 27, 1886. 

632. ii. Elizabeth Naomi 9 , b. Mar. 14, 1890. 

633. iii. Lois Elma 9 , b. July 20, 1895. 



464. GRANVILLE 8 (John Harmon 7 , Samuel W.\ Samuel S.*, 
Aaron*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Machinist at Dowagiac, Mich. 
He married, Oct. 5, 1881, Gertrude Bodley. She was b. Sept. 
1, 1862. 



children. 



634. i. Carl 9 , b. Sept. 21, 1882; d. Jan. 11, 1883. 

635. ii. Zella Olivia 9 , b. Sept. 15, 1884. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 197 



636. iii. Paul Bodley 9 , b. Apr. 5, i< 

637. iv. Raymond Kiefer 9 , b. Apr. 4, 1895. 

638. v. Ruth May 9 . 



466. HENRY ELLSWORTH 8 {John Harmon 1 , Samuel W.«, 
Samuel S. 5 , Aaron*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer at 
Angola, Ind. He married, in 1893, Emma Jane Tubbs. 

child. 
639. i. Heber 9 , b. Apr. 24, 1894. 



467. ALPHONSO BYRON 8 (John Harmon 1 , Samuel W*, 
Samuel S. 5 , Aaron*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Machinist at 
Three Rivers, Mich. He married, Feb. 6, 1890, at Three Rivers, 
Mich., Elizabeth M., dau. of John Buss (b. in Germany,, Dec. 
5, 1819) and Elizabeth Buss (b. in Germany, Jan. 16, 1827). 
She was b. June 8, 1865. 

CHILDREN. 

640. i. Helen Leone 9 , b. Jan. 5, 1891, at Three Rivers. 

641. ii. Avis Elizabeth 9 , b. July 9, 1900, at Three Rivers. 



468. JOHN FREMONT 8 (John Harmon 7 , Samuel W.«, Samuel 
S. 5 , Aaron*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Carpenter at Three 
Rivers, Mich. He married, Mar. 14, 1895, Olie Burrows. She 
died Oct. 9, 1896. 

CHILD. 

642. i. Olan 9 , d. in infancy. 



472. WILLIAM SIDNEY 8 (William S. 7 , William W. 6 , Samuel 
S. 5 , Aaron*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ) Lawyer in Chicago. 

The mother of William Sidney Elliott, Jr., Caroline (Morse) 
Elliott, was the daughter of Daniel Morse, a drummer boy of 
the War of 1812. Daniel Morse was a son of Nathan Morse, 



198 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

captain in Shay's Rebellion, 1812, and a grandson of Nathan 
Morse, the Revolutionary patriot, a private in Captain Amariah 
Fuller's command at Cambridge, April 19, 1775. Daniel 
Morse's wife was Lucretia (Sawyer) Morse, granddaughter 
of Jacob Sawyer, a patriot of the Revolutionary War, enlisted 
from Nobleborough, Maine, and wounded at the siege of 
Boston, under the command of Captain Rounds and Colonel 
Bond Mitchell. Mr. Elliott's mother was a schoolmate and 
playfellow of President James A. Garfield, and her father, 
Daniel Morse, above referred to, is the Morse with whom 
Garfield spent a portion of his early life, as mentioned in the 
biographies of the martyred president. In 1857 his parents 
moved to Quincy, 111., and before he had passed his sixteenth 
birthday he had acquired all the educational advantages afforded 
by the public and academical schools of that city. He then 
entered the banking establishment of L. and C. H. Bull of 
Quincy, in whose employ he remained four years, during which 
time he obtained a thorough knowledge of the banking business, 
with its infinite attention to details, order and caution, to which 
fact he attributes in a great measure his subsequent success in 
life. Leaving them, he came to Chicago in 1869, and entered 
into an insurance brokerage business, which, during the next 
ten years became one of the most important in the city. 

He had made up his mind, however, to study law, and in 1879, 
through the assistance of Hon. Luther Laflin Mills, the cele- 
brated criminal lawyer, he entered the office of Emery A. Storrs, 
the nationally famed orator, where he remained until he was 
admitted to the bar in March, 1882. He later formed a part- 
nership with Mr. Storrs under the firm name of Storrs & 
Elliott, which continued until the death of the former. In 1887 
he was appointed Assistant State's Attorney of Cook County 
under Judge Longnecker. During the five years he held this 
position he conducted an average of twelve hundred prosecutions 
a year. 

In the fall of 1892 he returned to private practice, and since 
then he has appeared in a large number of important criminal 
cases. 

Mr. Elliott may be said to be a self-made man and self-edu- 
cated. Although not enabled to obtain a college education, he 
has always been a student, and especially may this be said of 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 1 99 

him in his profession. He is gifted naturally in many ways, but 
his success has been the result of hard work, tenacity and per- 
severance in whatever he set out to do. He is an orator of 
recognized ability and largely sought for upon occasions requir- 
ing the services of those thus favored. He has also held the 
position of lecturer on Legal Ethics in the Kent College of Law, 
Chicago. Mr. Elliott was nominated for Judge of the Circuit 
Court of Cook County, 111., by the Republican party in 1903, 
but with the other candidates of the party was defeated on 
account of the political apathy in his party. 

He married, Oct. 14, 1871, at Chicago, Alwilda Caroline, dau. 
of James and Salome Harris of Janesville, Wis. She was b. 
Mar. 12, 1851. 

CHILDREN. 

Lorenzo Bull 9 , b. Nov. 12, 1872, at Chicago. 
Daniel Morse 9 , b. Aug. 16, 1875. 
Madeline 9 , b. Aug. 16, 1875 ; d. Feb. 23, 1876. 
Charles Sumner 9 , b. Feb. 21, 1878 ; d. Sept. 26, 1896. 
Salome Harris 9 , b. Sept. 10, 1879 ; d. Jan. 22, 1880. 
Emery Storrs 9 , b. Oct. 9, 1882. 
Jessie Florence 9 , b. July 10, 1884. 
viii. Birdie Leon 9 , b. May 17, 1894. 



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473. ASHBEL RILEY 8 (William Sidney 7 , William W.°, Samuel 
S. 5 , Aaron 4 , Jared?, Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Publisher and general 
advertising agent in New York City. Until he was eighteen 
years of age he lived with his grandparents, Daniel and Lucretia 
Morse, North Solon, Cuyahoga Co., O. He was a resident of 
Chicago from 1876- 1884. While he was editor of the Chicago 
Grocer, he organized the Chicago Freight Bureau in the fall of 
1883, an organization still in existence and one of the most 
potent factors in the transportation interests of Chicago. 

In 1884 he came to New York, where he was the New York 
representative of a number of Chicago and western newspapers. 
He is now (1904) president of the A. R. Elliott Publishing Co., 
and the owner of the New York Medical Journal, acquired by 
him in June, 1900, from Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. He is also 
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200 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

president of the American Druggist Publishing Co., having 
acquired the American Druggist from Wm. Wood & Co. in 
May, 1892. 

He is the sole owner of the well-known A. R. Elliott Adver- 
tising Agency, occupying the Gibbs Building, 66 West Broad- 
way. He is a member of a number of leading clubs of New 
York, was one of the principal organizers of the Commercial 
Club, and personally founded the Chicago Society of New 
York, of which he is secretary. He is a man of indomitable 
energy, a veritable steam engine in the pursuit of any under- 
taking. 

He married, Jan. 14, 1896, at Whitehall, N. Y., Gertrude Flora 
Manville of Mitchell, N. Y. She was b. Jan. 10, 1874. 

CHILDREN. 

651. i. Katherine Manville 9 , b. Dec. 2, 1899, in New York. 

652. ii. Margaret Morse 9 , b. July 3, 1902, in New York. 



480. CHARLES NORMAN 8 (John W.\ John A.\ Samuel S. 5 , 
Aaron*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Weigher, Allendale, N. J. 
He married, Nov. 25, 1874, Margaretta F. Gordon. She was 
b. Nov. 25, 1853, in New York City. 



CHILDREN. 



653. i. Elizabeth Luella 9 , b. Dec. 31, 1875; d. July 9, 1876. 
+ 654. ii. Charles Norman, Jr. 9 , b. June 2, 1877, in Brooklyn. 



482. HENRY GAYLORD 8 (Henry 7 , John A.\ Samuel S.\ 
Aaron*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Advertising agent in Mont- 
clair, N. J. He married, Oct. 10, 1883, Florence, dau. of Henry 
R. and Catherine Winter. She was b. Feb. 24, 1861. 



CHILDREN. 



655. i. Gaylord Winter 9 , b. Aug. 16, 1884, in Brooklyn. 

656. ii. Carolyn Grace 9 , b. Sept. 28, 1885, in Brooklyn. 

657. iii. Florence Depew 9 , b. Dec. 19, 1887, in Brooklyn. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 201 

489. ROBERT SAMUEL 8 {Samuel W.\ John A. 6 , Samuel S.*, 
Aaron*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Tea and coffee dealer in 
Salisbury, Conn. He married, Oct. 10, 1893, at Bennington, 
Vt., Emma F. Herrington. 

CHILDREN. 

658. i. Lucy F. 9 , b. Apr. 12, 1896, at Bennington, Vt. 

659. ii. John H. 9 , b. May 24, 1899, at Salisbury, Conn. 



503. HARRY COOK 8 {William A.\ John 6 , John*, Nathan", 
Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He married, Dec. 25, 1894, at 
Hersher, 111., Cora Wilcox. 

CHILDREN. 

660. i. Jullien Ross 9 , b. Nov. 9, 1895. 

661. ii. Hugh Wilcox 9 , b. Mar. 19, 1899. 

662. iii. Elmer Ellsworth 9 , b. Oct. 20, 1902. 



518. HENRY MANSFIELD 8 {Jared Kirtland 1 , Daniel 6 , Richard 
J. 5 , Nathan 4 , Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He is engaged (1904) 
in farming and stock-raising at Knoxville, la. He married, 
Oct. 4, 1880, Cora Milner. 



children. 



663. i. Jennie 9 , b. Sept. 25, 1881. 

664. ii. Frank 9 , b. June 4, 1883. 

665. iii. Henry 9 , b. Oct. 10, 1886. 



519. JOHN BROWN 8 {Jared Kirtland 7 , Daniel 6 , Richard J. 5 , 
Nathan*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He is (1904) a banker at 
Knoxville, la. When but twenty-three years old he was elected 
to the Iowa Legislature, and served for four years, being the 
youngest member of the Legislature. He married, Nov. 27, 
1878, Nora M. Miller of Knoxville. 



202 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

CHILDREN. 

666. i. Helen E. 9 , b. Oct. 31, 1880. She married, Nov. 12, 

1901, Rollo S. Granger, son of Judge C. T. Granger, 
former Chief Justice of Iowa. He is (1904) a 
lawyer at Knoxville. 

667. ii. Genevieve 9 , b. June 17, 1887. 



521. JARED ROBERT 8 (Jared Kirtland 7 , Daniel 6 , Richard J. 5 , 
Nathan 4 , Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He married first, Oct. 6, 
1875, Emma Sue Shoots of Pleasantville, la. She d. Feb. 26, 
1888. He married second, July 23, 1890, Alberta Logan. 

CHILDREN, BY FIRST WIFE. 

668. i. Essie 9 , b. Aug. 9, 1876; d. May 4, 1884. 

669. ii. Beryl 9 , b. May 18, 1878. She married, Oct. 18, 1899, 

Harford T. McCormack of Knoxville, la. He is 
(1904) County Attorney for Marion Co., la. 

670. iii. Jared William 9 , b. Oct. 4, 1880. 

671. iv. Harriette Floyd 9 , b. June 9, 1883. 

672. v. Gail 9 , b. May 11, 1886; d. Sept. 26, 1886. 

CHILD, BY SECOND WIFE. 

673. vii. Leva 9 , b. May 31, 1891. 



523. JARED 8 (Oscar F. 7 , Daniel 6 , Richard J. 5 , Nathan*, Jared 3 , 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He enlisted Aug. 18, 1863, in Company I, 
8th Iowa Cavalry ; served in the Army of the Cumberland ; 
was in the Atlanta campaign until the city was captured ; served 
in the Nashville campaign ; also on the Wilson raid on the 
campaign to Selma and Montgomery in the spring of 1865 ; 
was discharged at Macon, Ga., Aug. 28, 1865. He is (1904) a 
farmer at Minerva, Marshall Co., la. He married, Nov. 4, 
1868, Samantha J. Ingledue. 

children. 
674. i. William Jared 9 , b. Feb. 2, 1872 ; d. 1872. 
+ 675. ii. George Fitzallan 8 , b. Sept. 23, 1873. 
676. iii. Grace M. 9 , b. May 14, 1886. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 203 

524. MILTON 8 {Oscar F.\ Daniel", Richard J. 5 , Nathan", Jared 3 , 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He removed from Iowa to California, where 
he owns (1904) a large farm, near Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co. 
He married, Apr. 22, 1869, Martha Mercer of Le Grand, la. 

CHILDREN. 

677. i. Hannah R. 9 , b. Jan. 18, 1870. She married first, 

Jan. 18, 1892, Frank C. Harvey of Minerva, la. 
She married second, Apr. 22, 1903, Frank Wolga- 
mott of Santa Rosa, Cal., where they now (1904) 
live. 

CHILD, BY FIRST MARRIAGE. 

i. Edith M., b. Apr. 1, 1895. 

678. ii. Walter B. 9 , b. Dec. 16, 1871. 

679. iii. Agnes M. 9 , b. Feb. 12, 1875. She married, Dec. 24, 

1896, Manoah Willcuts of Minerva, la. He is 
(1904) a farmer and resides at Springview, 
Keyapaha Co., Neb. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Leo, b. Oct. 16, 1899. 

2. Burr, b. Nov. 28, 1901. 

680. iv. Nellie E. 9 , b. Feb. 26, 1877. 

681. v. Mary 9 , b. Jan. 3, 1879; d - Mar - 8, 1879. 

682. vi. Edward 9 , b. Oct. 12, 1881 ; d. Jan. 7, 1882. 

683. vii. Charles M. 9 , b. Dec. 25, 1883. 

684. viii. John O. 9 , b. Sept. 9, 1885. 



525. JOHN 8 (Oscar F. 7 , Daniel 6 , Richard J. 5 , Nathan*, Jared 3 , 
Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He is (1904) a farmer at Leon, la. He 
married, Oct. 22, 1881, Martha E. Smith. 



children. 



685. i. Mary B. 9 , b. Feb. 2, 1884. 

686. ii. Rachel E. 9 , b. Oct. 8, 1886; d. Jan. 29, 1891. 

687. iii. Benjamin H. 9 , b. July 21, 1888; d. Jan. 21, 1891. 

688. iv. Hiram S. 9 , b. Feb. 27, 1890. 



204 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

689. v. Harold S. 9 , b. Apr. 12, 1892. 

690. vi. Marjorie E. 9 , b. Oct. 31, 1894. 

691. vii. Fayette M. 9 , b. July 13, 1896. 



528- GEORGE HORACE 8 {Robert Justice", Horace 6 , Richard 7. 5 , 
Nathan 4 ", Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He is at present (1904) 
connected with the Brook Terra-Cotta Tile and Brick Co., Brook, 
Ind. He married, Feb. 20, 1888, Minnie M. Coons of Chicago. 

children. 

692. i. Luella 9 , b. Mar. 31, 1889. 

693. ii. Maude 9 , b. Nov. 14, 1892. 

694. iii. Byron 9 , b. Sept. 7, 1897; d. in infancy. 

695. iv. Mildred 9 , b. Dec. 3, 1900. 

696. v. Joseph 9 , b. Mar. 9, 1902. 



529. WILLIAM D. 8 (Robert Justice 7 , Horace*, Richard J.\ 
Nathan i , Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He is (1904) a merchant at 
Middletown, Ind. He married, Sept. 4, 1892, Alberta G. Grove. 



children. 



697. i. Leon Mahan 9 , b. June 19, 1893. 

698. ii. Helen Barbara 9 , b. July 15, 1895. 



532. ARTHUR CORRAL 8 (Robert Justice 7 , Horace 6 , Richard 7. 5 , 
Nathan 4 , Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He is (1904) a farmer at 
Lexington, 111. He married, Apr. 6, 1896, Rosetta E. Glearrett. 



children. 



699. i. Elzia Clifford 9 , b. Apr. 24, 1897. 

700. ii. Lloyd Ellsworth 9 , b. Sept. 9, 1898. 



550. WILLIAM HENRY 8 (Henry . W Ely A.\ George*, George 4 , 
Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He is (1904) Fuel Agent of the New 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 205 

York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co., and lives in New 
Haven, Conn. He married, Feb. 19, 1878, Nellie, daughter of 
William Chittenden of Scranton, Pa. 



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CHILDREN. 

i. Katherine Chittenden 9 , b. May 2, 1879. 

ii. Harriet Wheeler 9 , b. Aug. 16, 1881. 
iii. Augustus Hull 9 , b. Feb. 7, 1884. 
iv. Phoebe Elizabeth 9 , b. June 24, 1886. 

v. Henry Melvin 9 , b. Jan. 23, 1889. 
vi. William Leander 9 , b. June 30, 1893. 
vii. Nellie Pratt 9 , b. May 7, 1896. 



553. JOHN LEFFINGWELL 8 (Charles A.\ Ely A.\ George 5 , 
George 4 , Jared z , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He graduated at Yale in 
1894, and on Mar. 1, 1895, was appointed Postmaster at 
Clinton, Conn., which office he still (1904) holds, having been 
reappointed by Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt. He mar- 
ried, June 5, 1895, Henrietta Cruger, daughter of Edward 
Prescott and Katherine Church (Cruger) Spalding. She was 
of Knickerbocker descent. 

children. 

708. i. Susan Rebecca 9 , b. Apr. 7, 1896. 

709. ii. Marguerite Cruger 9 , b. Aug. 5, 1898; d. Aug. 22, 

1899. 



557. HENRY CLINTON 8 (Henry Achilles 7 , John Henry 6 , 
Achilles H. 5 , George*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He lives 
(1904) in New York. He married, Dec. 17, 1890, Ella M. 
McCord of New York. 



children. 



710. i. Ethel Rosalia 9 , b. Sept. 4, 1891 ; d. in infancy. 

711. ii. Chester Lewis 9 , b. May 18, 1892. 

712. iii. Harry Owen 9 , b. May 24, 1896. 



206 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

569. EDWARD 8 (Lewis Rossitcr 7 , Charles*, William*, Nathaniel*, 
Abial 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer in Guilford, Conn. He mar- 
ried, Oct. 16, 1889, Maud Abigail Lee. She was b. Aug. 8, 
1865, in Berlin, Wis. 

CHILDREN. 

713. 1. Elizabeth Maud 9 , b. July 14, 1890. 

714. ii. Lewis Rossiter 9 , b. Apr. 2, 1892. 

715. iii. Katharine Graves 9 , b. Sept. 5, 1894. 

716. iv. Edward Lee 9 , b. Apr. 21, 1904. 



572. BENJAMIN UPSON 8 (Charles M.\ Charles 6 , William 5 , 
Nathaniel 4 , Abial 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Mechanic at Worcester, 
Mass. He married first, Nov. 2y, 1890, at New Britain, Conn., 
Ida L. Langley. She was b. Feb. 25, 1870, at Windbarry, N. Y. ; 
d. July 4, 1901, at Worcester, Mass. He married second, Dec. 
1, 1903, at Worcester, Mass., Eva Albertha, daughter of Joseph 
Allen of Worcester, Mass. 

CHILDREN, BY FIRST WIFE. 

717. i. Harold Langley 9 , b. Dec. 21, 1896. 

718. ii. Clifford Benjamin 9 , b. Sept. 14, 1898; d. Oct. 26, 

1898. 

719. iii. Charles Morgan 9 , b. June 20, 1901 ; d. Aug. 20, 1901. 



576. ARCHIE H. 8 (Reuben T.\ Richard S.\ Reuben 6 , Wyllys*, 
Abial 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He has been a successful farmer, 
teacher and bookkeeper. Moved to South Dakota 1885, 
Cleveland 1895, and South Pasadena, Cal., 1902. He married 
first, Mar. 2, 1885, at Olmstead, O., Kate Stearns. She was 
b. Nov. 18, 1863 ; d. Apr. 8, 1902, in Cleveland. He married 
second, Dec. 18, 1902, in Des Moines, la., Mrs. Belle M. Smith 
(n^Ormiston). 

CHILDREN, BY FIRST WIFE. 

720. i. Edwin Henry 9 , b. Nov. II, 1886, in S. D. ; d. Jan. 
29, 1887. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 207 

721. ii. Albert Buell 9 , b. Nov. 16, 1888, in S. D. ; d. Aug. 20, 

1898. 

722. iii. Henry Richard 9 , b. May 10, 1895, in S. D. 



577. WILL NELSON 8 (Reuben Thomas 1 , Richard S.°, Reuben 5 , 
Wyllys i , Abial 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He married Apr. 14, 1892, 
Bertha Ema Demoline. She d. June 14, 1901. 



children. 



723. i. Reuben Will 9 , b. Jan. 27, 1894. 

724. ii. Nelson Alger 9 , b. Apr. 6, 1899. 



583. WILLIAM 8 (William P. 7 , Nelson 7. 6 , Reuben 6 , Wyllys*, 
Abial 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ) of Rutherford, N. J. He married, Oct. 
16, 1900, Julia Hubbard, daughter of Henry Prentice of Ruther- 
ford, N. J. She was b. Jan. 23, 1874. 

CHILD. 

725. i. William 9 , b. Apr. 13, 1902. 



609. HARRY ELI 8 (Alexander Lucius 7 , Alex. McG.«, Timothy 6 , 
Timothy*, AbiaP, Joseph 2 , John 1 ). School teacher, Lewis 
Centre, O. He married, Oct. 7, 1891, in Del. Co., Lily B. Holly. 

children. 

726. i. Clara Louise 9 , b. Oct. 11, 1892, in Del. Co. 

727. ii. Leta Fern 9 , b. Aug. 5, 1894, Del. Co. 

728. iii. Ursa May 9 , b. Aug. 7, 1896, Del. Co. 

729. iv. Gladys Irene 9 , b. Sept. 6, 1898, Del. Co. 

730. v. Lester Lucius 9 , b. Feb. 28, 1903, Del. Co. ) twins 

731. vi. Esther Emma 9 , b. Feb. 28, 1903, Del. Co. ) 



208 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

610. HERBERT LUZERNE 8 (Alex. Lucius 7 , Alex. McG.*, 

Timothy 5 , Timothy 4 , Abial 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Manufacturer 

and manager, Delaware, O. He married, Mar. 5, 1898, at 
Condit, O., Clara Cring. 

CHILDREN. 

732. i. Paul McGilvray 9 , b. Jan. 24, 1899, at Condit, O. 

733. ii. Charles Edwin 9 , b. Aug. 17, 1900, at Delaware, O. 

734. iii. John Henry 9 , b. Aug. 1903, at Delaware, O. 



643. LORENZO BULL 9 (William S.\ William S. 7 , William W.\ 
Samuel S. 5 , Aaron*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Post-graduate 
and B.L. of the Lake Forest University (1895), graduate of the 
Kent College of Law in Chicago 1894. Lawyer of well-recog- 
nized ability in Chicago. He married, Oct. 10, 1900, at Chicago, 
Margaret Catherine Harris, daughter of Arthur and Helen 
Wipes Harris. She was b. Apr. 16, 1874. 

CHILD. 

735. i. Arthur Harris 10 , b. June 22, 1904. 



644. DANIEL MORSE 9 (William S. s , William S. 7 , William W. 6 , 
Samuel S. 5 , Aaron 4 , Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Lawyer in 
Chicago, 111., giving promise of distinction. He married, Feb. 
28, 1900, at Chicago, Lucy Adrienne, daughter of George Nelson 
and Lucy A. Lydston of Chicago. She was b. Sept. 15, 1876. 

CHILDREN. 

736. i. Sidney Morse 10 , b. Mar. 1, 1902. 

737. ii. Frank Lydston 10 , b. Nov. 10, 1904. 



654. CHARLES NORMAN 9 (Charles NS, John W.\ John A.\ 
Samuel S. 5 , Aaron 4 , Jared 3 , Joseph-. John' 1 ). He married, Sept. 
24, 1902, Cordelia Valesca Howard. She was b. Jan. 26, 1876. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 209 

CHILD. 

738. i. Elizabeth Margaretta 10 , b. Jan. 27, 1904. 



670. JARED WILLIAM 9 (Jared Robert 8 , Jared K.\ Daniel 6 , 
Richard J. 5 , Nathan*, Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He married, 
Nov. 6, 1900, Blanche Gibson. 

CHILD. 

739. i. Geraldine Gibson 10 , b. Nov. 26, 1901. 



675. GEORGE FITZALLAN 9 (Jared 8 , Oscar F. 7 , Daniel*, 
Richard J. 5 , Nathan 4 , Jared 3 , Joseph 2 , John 1 ). Farmer at 
Minerva, Marshall Co., la. He married, Mar. 1, 1892, Mary 
E. Willcuts. 



CHILDREN. 



740. i. Jennie M. 10 , b. Dec. 24, 1892. 

741. ii. Gladys A. 10 , b. Oct. 28, 1894. 

742. iii. William Jared 10 , b. Oct. 8, 1896. 



A pedigree is a ladder by which we mount into past ages, and on any 
round of which we find a convenient resting place for staying to look 
about us. 

— London Athenaeum, quoted in N. E. Histor. & Genealog. Reg., vol. 
xiv. p. oj. 



PART III 

" Those who do not treasure up the memory of their ancestors 
do not deserve to be remembered by posterity." 



"Reader, go thy way; secure thy name in the Book of 
Life, where the page fades not, nor the title alters nor 
expires, — leave the rest to heralds and the parish register." 



PART III 

(Largely prepared by Dr. Ellsworth Eliot) 



FACSIMILE OF BENNETT ELIOT'S MARRIAGE AND JOHN 
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214 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

1. EVENTS HAVING REFERENCE TO JOHN ELIOT, 
DURING HIS LIFE 

Chronologically arranged — necessarily incomplete 

1606-1610. 

The record of the baptisms of Sarah, Phillip, John and Jacob 
is in the Widford Register, Jacob having been baptized Sept. 
21, 1606. The record of the baptisms of the other children, 
Lydia, Francis and Mary, is in the Register at Nazeing, that of 
Lydia, in 1610. It is therefore probable that the family of 
Bennett Eliot removed from Widford to Nazeing between 1606 
and 1610. 

1618. 

March 20. Entered as pensioner at Jesus College, Cambridge 
University. 

A pensioner is defined as a student who pays his expenses. 
In our day they are the great body of students. John Harvard, 
from whom Harvard University is named, was a pensioner at 
Emmanuel College, one of the seventeen included in Cambridge 
University ; Jesus College, founded in 1496, being another. 

1618-1622. 

Nothing has been discovered in regard to Eliot during the 
four years he was in college, excepting this record : 

"1622. Maii die xv° Johannes Eliott (sic) habuit licentiam 
sibi concessam petendi gratiam ab universitate ad respondendum 
quaestioni spondente M ro Beale". This explanation is added : 
Mr. Beale was his tutor, a fellow of the college. The license 
is equivalent to what we call a supplicat which the college gives 
to quaestionists "proceeding to a B.A. degree". 

A quaestionist is "a man in the fourth year of residence who 
had not yet taken his B.A. degree." 

His degree signature is in Vol. 1, Subscription Book in the 
Registrar's office at Cambridge University. No earlier auto- 
graph of John Eliot has been found. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 215 

l62I. 

Nov. 5. Date of the will of his father, Bennett Eliot, in which 
provision is made for the maintenance of his son, John, at Cam- 
bridge University, where he is a "scholler". (See Part I.) 

1 622-1 63 1. 

A portion of this interval was spent at Little Baddow, Essex, 
England, as a school-master with the Rev. Thomas Hooker, 
who, from about 1626-1628 was a lecturer at Chelmsford. In 
1630, Hooker went to Holland. In 1633 he arrived at Boston. 
After a brief settlement at Cambridge as the first minister there, 
he, with his congregation, removed to Hartford, Conn., where 
he died in 1647. 

Although John's first years were seasoned with the fear of 
God, the word, and prayer, while living with Mr. Hooker, he 
received deep religious impressions. "To this place was I called 
through the infinite riches of God's mercy in Christ Jesus to 
my poor soul ; for here the Lord said unto my dead soul, Live ; 
and, through the grace of Christ, I do live, and I shall live 
forever. When I came to this blessed family, I then saw, and 
never before, the power of godliness in its lively vigor and 
efficacy". 

1631. 

Probably about the middle of August he embarked on the 
ship Lion for Boston. Margaret, wife of John Winthrop, with 
an infant daughter who died on the passage, was a passenger ; 
and John Eliot, the only minister on the ship, must have been 
called upon to offer consolation to the bereaved. 

Nov. 2. "The ship Lyon, William Peirce master, arrived at 
Natascot. There came in her the governour's wife, his eldest 
son, and his wife, and others of his children, and Mr. Eliot, 
a minister, and other families, being in all about sixty persons, 
who all arrived in good health, having been ten weeks at sea." 

Nov. 3. "The wind being contrary, the ship stayed at Long 
Island . . . and the next morning, the wind coming fair, she 
came to anchor before Boston." 

Nov. 4. "The governour, his wife and children, went on 
shore, with Mr. Peirce, in his ship's boat. The ship gave them 
six or seven pieces. At their landing, the captains, with their 
companies in arms, entertained them with a guard, and divers 
vollies of shot, and three drakes ; and divers of the afsistants 



2l6 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

and most of the people, of the near plantations, came to welcome 
them, and brought and sent, for divers days, great stores of 
provisions, as fat hogs, kids, venison, poultry, geese, partridges, 
etc., so as the like joy and manifestation of love had never 
been seen in New England. It was a great marvel, that so 
much people and such store of provisions could be gathered 
together at so few hours' warning" 

Nov. ii. "We kept a day of thanksgiving at Boston" 
"He adjoyned to the church at Boston, and there exercised 
in the absence of Mr. Wilson the Pastor who was gone back to 
England for his wife and family" 

1632. 

Feb. 7. "The governour, Mr. Nowell, Mr. Eliot, and others, 
went over Mistick River at Medford, and going N. and by E. 
among the rocks about two or three miles, they came to a very 
great pond, having in the midst an island of about one acre, and 
very thick with trees of pine and beech ; and the pond had 
divers small rocks, standing up here and there in it, which they 
therefore called Spot Pond. They went all about it upon the 
ice. From thence (towards the N. W. about half a mile,) they 
came to the top of a very high rock, beneath which (towards the 
N.) lies a goodly plain, part open land, and part woody, from 
whence there is a fair prospect, but it being then close and 
rainy, they could see but a small distance. This place they 
called Cheese Rock, because, when they went to eat somewhat, 
they had only cheese, (the governour's man forgetting, for 
haste, to put up some bread.)" 

March 6. In the list of "The names of such as desire to be 
made freemen are the names, at the head, of "Mr. John Eliot" 
and "Jacob Eliot". 

Mr. Eliot writes of himself : "Mr. John Eliot ; he come to. 
N. E. in the 9* month. 1631. . . . the next summer M r Wilson 
returned, & by y l time the church at Boston was intended to 
call him to office ; his friends w r come & setled at Rocksbrough, 
to whom he was foreingaiged, y t if he were not called to office 
before they came, he was to join w th them, wherevpon the church 
at Rocksbrough called him to be Teacher, in the end of y* sumer 
& soone after he was ordained to y* office in the church". 

Winthrop says: "Mr. John Eliot, a member of Boston con- 
gregation, and one whom the congregation intended presently 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 217 

to call to the office of teacher, was called to be a teacher to the 
church at Roxbury ; and though Boston laboured all they could, 
both with the congregation of Roxbury and with Mr. Eliot 
himself, alleging their want of him, and the covenant between 
them, etc., yet he could not be diverted from accepting the call 
of Roxbury, November 5. So he was dismissed". 

Upon the return of Mr. Wilson from England, the church at 
Boston, Cotton Mather says, "was intending to have made Mr. 
Eliot his Colleague, and their Teacher ; but it was thus diverted. 
Mr. Eliot had engaged unto a select number of his pious and 
Christian Friends in England, that if they should come into 
these Parts before he should be in the pastoral Care of any 
other people, he would give himself to them, and be for Their 
Service. It happened that these Friends transported them- 
selves hither the year after him ; and chose their Habitation at 
the Town which they called Roxbury. A Church being now 
gathered at this place, he was in a little while Ordained unto 
the Teaching and Ruling of that holy Society. So, 'twas in 
the Orb of that Church that we had him as a Star fixed for 
very near Threescore years ; it only remains that we now 
observe what was his Magnitude all this while, and how he per- 
formed his Revolution". 

Sept. 16. Hannah Mountford (or Mumford) probably 
arrived at Boston in ship Lyon with one hundred and twenty- 
two other passengers. 

"in the 8th month m. Hanna Mumford." 

Nov. 5. Ordained as teacher at Roxbury. 

1633- 

Sept. 17. "Hannah the daughter of Mr. John Eliot borne". 

Oct. 16. The church in Roxbury and six other churches 
"kept a day of thanksgiving for the mercies granted to the 
country". 

1634. 

Jan. 19. "All the ministers except Mr. Ward of Ipswich, 
met at Boston, being requested by the governour and assistants, 
to consider of these two cases: I. What we ought to do, if 
a general governour should be sent out of England? 2. 
Whether it be lawful for us to carry the cross in our banners ? — 
In the first case, they all agreed, if a governour were sent, we 
ought not to accept him, but defend our lawful possessions (if 



2l8 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

we were able ;) otherwise to avoid or protract. For the matter 
of the cross ; they were divided ; and so deferred it to another 
meeting." 

Nov. 27. The Governour and his assistants were informed 
"how Mr. Eliot, the teacher of the church of Roxbury, had 
taken occasion, in a sermon, to speak of a peace made with the 
Pekods, and to lay some blame upon the ministry for proceeding 
therein, without consent of the people, and for other failings, 
(as he conceived). We took order, that he should be dealt 
with by Mr. Cotton, Mr. Hooker, and Mr. Welde, to be brought 
to see his errour, and to heal it by some public explanation of 
his meaning ; for the people began to take occasion to murmur 
against us for it." 

"The aforsaid three ministers, upon conference with the said 
Mr. Eliot, brought him to acknowledge his errour in that he 
had mistaken the ground of his doctrine, and that he did 
acknowledge, that, for a peace only, (whereby the people were 
not to be engaged in a war,) the magistrates might conclude, 
plebe inconsulto, and so promised to express himself in public 
next Lord's day." 

"Thomas Hills a man servant, he came in the yeare. 1633. 
he lived among us in good esteeme & Godly, & dyed about the 
n* or i2 l month. 1634 and left a good savor behind him, he 
was a very faithfull & prudent servant, & a good christian, he 
dyed in Mr. Eliots family. 

i635- 
Probably this year, his brother, Philip, with his family, sailed 
from England in the Hopewell, as he was made freeman, May 
25, 1636. 

1636. 

"John his first borne son, was borne in the 31 day of the 6 l 
month, ario. 1636" 

1637. 

Nov. Was present at, and took part in "The examination 
of Mrs. Ann Hutchinson at the Court at Newtown." 

At a General Court held at Newtown, "Mr John Wilson & 
Mr John Eliot being put to lot w hc should go forth w ,h the 
souldiers against the Pecoits, Mr. Wilson was chosen". 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 219 

1638. 

"Joseph his 2 d sone was borne in the 20 th day of the 10 th 
month, afio: 1638". 

1639. 

March 12. Mr. Eliot, one of a committee, to consider 
oppression in war, "prizes of commodities" &c. 

The Puritans "beheld," in the translations of the Psalms, then 
in use, "so many detractions from, additions to, and variations 
of, not only the text, but the very sense of the psalmist, that it 
was an offence unto them. Resolving then upon a new trans- 
lation ; the chief divines in the country took each of them a 
portion of them to be translated ; among whom was Mr. Welde 
and Mr. Eliot of Roxbury, and Mr. Mather of Dorchester". 

1640. 

The Bay Psalm Book, translated by Richard Mather, Thomas 
Welde and John Eliot, printed. 

His name, the last of eight, signed to a "Declaration of Min- 
isters of Massachusetts" ; a document of a religious character, 
indorsed by Gov. Winthrop "About evidence &c." 

"Tho : Weld," "Tho : Sheppard," "Jo : Wilson," and others, 
as wel as "Jo: Eliot," signed the document. 

1641. 

"Samuel his 3 d sone. was borne the 22 d day of the 4* month, 
ano: 1645". 

John Tye, in his will, dated Sept. 10 th , leaves "Mr. Eliote 
Teacher of Roxbury" ten trees. 

Mr. Welde, pastor, went to England, leaving Mr. Eliot in 
sole charge of the church at Roxbury. 

Rev. John Wilson of Boston writes to "Brother Weld and 
Eliot" in regard to "Goodman John Compton," "laborer," 
one of those ordered to be disarmed in 1637, and who 
might "have a secret reservation in his breast to hould to Mr. 
Wheelwrights opinions" 

"7 th Day of 8 th mo." Appointed one of a committee to 
examine Mr. Samuel Hutchinson to find out whether he was 
"sound in judgment so that he might dwell among them". 

The case of Mr. Richard Dummers, referred to Mr. Wilson 
and Mr. Eliot. 



2 20 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

1642. 

"He was a participant in most of the councils held at 
Woburn, (Mass.), notably the first one in 1642. He came on 
horseback through the woods from Roxbury by a blazed path 
and arrived here at 8 A. M. Those were heroic days. He came 
also to the second council in December of that same year when 
Rev. Thomas Carter was ordained, and he was often a traveller 
through your territory on his way with his friend Gookin to the 
Indian settlement on the Concord river." 

1643. 
"Aaron his 4* sonne was borne the 19. of the 12*. afio 1643". 

1644. 

Ap. 6. Date of a letter written to John Eliot by William 
Vassall, a prominent man of Scituate, Mass., in which help is 
asked in regard to the settlement of a minister and other 
matters. 

"4 : of the : 10 th month. Date of a letter to Richard — perhaps 
Richard Smith — in regard to religious doctrine. 

1645. 

"last of August." Signs an agreement, as do a large number 
of the inhabitants of Roxbury, "to erect a free schoole in the 
said Towne of Roxburie," and to support a schoolmaster. 

Dec. 8. Date of the will of Henry Deegaine, (in the hand- 
writing of John Eliot, a witness) a physician, one of the early 
proprietors of Dedham, Mass. 

1646. 

June 2. Joseph Weld leaves to "Mr. John Eliot or Teacher" 
"my black tawny cloke." Mr. Eliot is one of the overseers of 
his will. 

Sept. 14. John Eliot first preached the Gospel to the Indians 
in the wigwam of Kitchomakin in a grove near the mouth of 
Neponset river. 

Oct. 28. "Upon October 28, 1646, four of us (having sought 
God) went unto the Indians inhabiting within our bounds, with 
desire to make known the things of theire peace to them." The 
meeting lasted three hours. "For about an hour and a quarter 
the Sermon continued". 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 221 

"Upon November n, 1646, we came the second time unto 
the same Wigwam of Waawbon". 

Nov. 26. A "third meeting" was held 

Dec. 9. "A fourth meeting with the Indians" at the same 
place. 

"Hee that God hath raised up and enabled to preach unto 
them, is a man (you know) of a most sweet, humble, loving, 
gracious and enlarged spirit, whom God hath blest, and surely 
will delight in, & do good by". 

Dec. 18. Signed an agreement in regard to the Roxbury 
school. 

"Benjamin his 5* sonne was borne the 29 of the n*. 1646". 

1647. 

March 3. Lecture at Nonantum, attended by Rev. Mr. 
Shepard and others. 

Ap. 27. Tho. Peters writes to John Winthrop : — "I have 
procured some friends to give 10 li per annum for a while, for 
a schoolmaster at Roxbury, to teach Indians, both their owne 
and our Eng : tongue, how to read and pronounce both, which 
I desire you to acquaint Mr. Eliot with" &c. 

May 26. "It is ordered that ten pounds be given to Mr. Eliot 
as a gratuity from this court in respect of his pains in instruct- 
ing the Indians in the knowledge of God, and that order be taken 
that the twenty pounds per annum given by the lady Armine 
for that purpose may be called for and employed accordingly". 

"31 of the 3 d month." Date of a petition "To the much 
honored General Court" in regard to the election of a military 
officer. 

June 8. Preached to the Indians at Cambridge, "a great 
confluence" of whom were present at a synod of churches. 

July 26. Was present at a meeting of the Commissioners of 
the United Colonies to complain of the conduct of an Indian. 

Sept. 24. Date of a letter to the Rev. Thomas Shepard 
"concerning the late work of God among the Indians" 

"30. 7." In regard to the Degaine will : — "Testified upon the 
Oath of the sd. M r Jo : Eliott" before Gov. Winthrop. 

In 1647, or perhaps the preceding year, Mr. Eliot, with 
others, went as far as the Merrimac to see the Indian chief 
Passaconaway, who would not then see them. 



2 22 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

During this year, a second edition of the Bay Psalm Book 
was printed, "slight amendments in phraseology" having been 
made. 

1649. 

March 14. Elizabeth Morricke, in her will, leaves "Mr. Eliot 
of Roxbury", 2oy. 

Ap. 13. Was probably at the funeral of Gov. John 
Winthrop. He "may have been attended by a group of 
Indians".. 

"8 of 5". Date of a letter to Mr. Winslow in regard to the 
Indians. A second letter, without date, but somewhat later. 

July 8. In a letter to Mr. Winslow, he expresses his intense 
desire "to translate some parts of the Scriptures" for the 
Indians, "and to print some Primer in their language". 

July 27. — "die Veneris 27 th July 1649". An Act or Ordinance 
passed by Parliament, entitled — "A Corporation for the Pro- 
moting and Propagating of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New 
England". 

Nov. 13. Date of a letter from Mr. Eliot printed in "The 
Glorious Progress of the Gospel". 

Dec. 29. Date of a letter in regard to the Indians, printed in 
the tract entitled — "A farther discovery of the present state of 
the Indians in New England". 

1650. 

Ap. 18. Date of a letter from Mr. Eliot in regard to the 
Indians, printed in a tract entitled — "A farther Discovery of the 
present state of the Indians in New England" 

May. Mr. Eliot writes "a briefe topographical description 
of the Seuerall Townes in New England with the names of 
our magistrats and Ministers" 

"First of fourth month". Mr. Eliot's name, with others, 
signed as witnesses to a statement concerning Chickatawbetts 
bounds. 

Sept. 5. Date of a letter from Wm. Steele, President of the 
Society in England for propagating the Gospel, in which it is 
recommended that Mr. Eliot be paid £100 more. 

In the will of Elizabeth, widow of John Morricke, probated 
"5. 7 th 1650, "Mr. Eliot and Mr. Danforth of Rox." are 
legatees. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 223 

Sept. 24. Rev. Samuel Danforth, M.A., ordained as col- 
league of Mr. Eliot. 

Oct. 18. Date of a letter to Thomas Thorowgood, in which 
he writes in regard to the descent of the Indians from the 
Jews. 

Oct. 21. Date of a letter from Mr. Eliot in regard to the 
Indians. 

Dec. 28-29. Mr. Eliot visited by Father Druillettes, who 
spent the night with him, and was invited to pass the winter. 

This year, "Unkus, Sachem of the Monohegens", went to 
Hartford, Conn., at the meeting of the "Court of Commis- 
sioners" to prevent them from adopting measures to compel 
the Indians to pray to God 

After an examination of several places, Natick was selected 
as a place for an Indian town. 

1651. 

Jan. 30. Mr. Eliot deposed before Court that George 
Holmes was of a deposing mind the year 1646 or thereabouts. 
He was one of the witnesses, and overseers of his will, which 
is in the handwriting of the Apostle. 

The foundation of Natick laid. 

"Mr. Eliot had made a translation of some of the psalms into 
Indian metre as early as 1651. 

In a letter to a friend in England he writes : — "I have no hope 
to see the Bible translated, much less printed, in my days." 

28 th of the 2 nd . Date of a letter to one of the Corporation, 
and a second one, undated : both printed in a pamphlet entitled, 
"Strength out of Weakness" 

"From Natick in New England, July 4, 165 1". Date of a 
letter respecting "fascinations and witchcraft", printed in a 
London newspaper (Mercurius Publicus). 

"6 th day of 6 th month. At "a great meeting of the Indians, 
read and expounded the 18 th of Exodus. 

"10 th of 7 month", Lecture at Natick. 

"24 th day of the 7 th Moneth", "taught the Indians" out of 
the 9 th of Ezra 3 & 9," and a second time from "Deut. 29 and 
the 1 to 16" 

Aug. 18. Mr. Eliot bought the library of the Rev. Thomas 
Welde for "Thirty fowre pounds", which was paid "by the 
Corporation for N. Engl." 



224 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Sept. 4. Meeting of the Commissioners of the United 
Colonies at New Haven, Conn., A petition and letter from Mr. 
Eliot were submitted, and an answer returned. 

"8 th of Oct. moneth". Lecture at Natick. 

"23 of the S v '. Date of a petition to the "honored Court" in 
which he asks that the towns adjoining- Dedham may grant 
some of their territory to Dedham as a compensation for land 
granted by this town to Natick. 

"20 th of the 8 th . Date of a letter "to his much hono r ed and 
respected friend Mr. Winslow, London" — 

20* of the 8 th . "My eyes begin to faile," and he therefore 
wants a Bible in "bigger print". 

1652. 

Ap. 26. Thomas Dudley bequeaths "Worthy & beloued 
friends, John Elliott, teacher of the church at Roxbury", and 
others "gieuing to each of them, if they shall Hue, 2 years after 
my death, 5}. apiece — that they will doe for mee and mine as I 
would haue done for them & theirs in the like case". John 
Eliot is named as one of the executors in the will. 

Aug. 30. "Received by the hands of Mr. Thomas Thorow- 
good forty pounds in good goods to be conveyed unto Mr. Eliot 
in New England, from several Knights, Ladies, and Gentlemen 
of Norfolk for his encouragement in his happy endeavours to 
gospellize the Iindians. 

This, the danger of the Seas excepted, is acknowledged by 
me, Ri. Thurston". In the presence of ("three witnesses," 
whose names and titles are given). 

Oct. 13. Discourses at Natick by Mr. Eliot and some 
Indians: confessions by the latter in the presence of the Elders 
with a view to "church estate" 

"8* of the io 1 ". Date of a letter "to the worsh'full Mr. Steele 
p r sident" &c. 

i653- 

Jan. Date of "First Accompt sent over" &c. in regard to 
his work among the Indians. 

Feb. 18. Date of a letter from the Corporation in England, 
signed by Wm. Steele, President, in which mention is made of 
complaints by Mr. Eliot to his friends in England. 



DESCENDANTS OP JOHN ELIOT. • 225 

In the same letter is the following: — "Wee are far from 
Justifying Mr. Elliott in his Turbulent and clamorous proceed- 
ings but the best of gods servants haue theire faylings and as 
such soe wee look vpon him". 

"This spring time in the year 1653, being sundry days at 
Pautucket, and spending a sabbath among them, there was a 
woman at the meeting who had a small brass image of a man 
about her neck, hanging by a string fastened about the neck of 
the image; I observed it, but thought little of it: afterwards 
when I thought to have gone away, my horse had run and gone 
homeward, as they found by his footing, whereupon I sent some 
one after my horse, and proposed to have gone on foot after till 
they met me with my horse. Many being gathered together to 
take leave of me, among the rest there was that woman with an 
image about her neck ; I asked her why she wore it there ; she 
roundly and readily answered me, I pray unto it. Why, says I, 
do you account that to be your god ? She as readily answered 
me, yes. At which I marvelled, having never seen the like 
before at any place I ever came to, therefore declared to her, 
and the company about us, the greatness of the sin of idolatry. 
I urged the second commandment. I shewed how much idols 
should be demolished. I desired her to give it to me, that I 
might demolish it ; but she refused. I offered her half a crown 
for it, but she was not willing. Perceiving that it was tied 
with a riding knot, I slipped the knot, and slipped off the image ; 
then she swelled with anger, and cried. I presently gave her 
half a crown, which she took, but was not pacified. I told the 
company, the first pond I came to I would cast it in. When I 
departed, the woman girt up her loins and ran after me ; when 
I perceived it, I asked her whither she went; she answered, 
whither I went, and she would not leave me so long as I had 
her god about me. It began to rain, which was some discour- 
agement to my going forward ; then I considered that this act 
of mine, in taking away and abolishing the idol, was neither so 
proper nor so valid as it would be if the rulers and sachems 
should do it — I resolved to return, and did so, and, the woman 
after me. When I came to the wigwam, there being four 
sachems present which prayed to God, I desired them all to 
come together. Being come, I told them that seeing the rain 
had driven me back, God would not have me yet to go, but some- 



2 26 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

what else is to be done about this idol and the sin of idolatry, 
and because the woman is not content with what I have done I 
do commit the matter and the idol unto you to judge. So I 
laid it upon the ground before them where they sat, and went 
to confer with the company. When they had sat about half 
an hour in consultation, they desired the company to come before 
them, which they did. They said they had agreed upon their 
judgments, ist, That the act in taking away the idol was well 
done. 2dly, That one man should be appointed to demolish the 
idol, and three others for witnesses that it was done. 3dly, 
They adjudged the idolatress to be a great sinner, yet as it was 
the first time, and that she had done it ignorantly, therefore they 
would spare her, yet they did all one after another reprove her 
very solemnly. After execution was done upon the idol, one 
declared that he understood there were some more idols like to 
that, in other houses. I requested the sachems to send for those 
also. The officer or constable went well guarded, and presently 
brought a bright brass image or seraphim with his wings spread, 
to the sachems, who presently passed the same judgment they 
had done upon the former, and it was executed accordingly. I 
asked, how it should come to pass that there should be such 
idolatry here, and in no place else that I had heard of. They 
rendered this reason : That being the most northerly place that 
I resort to, some of those Indians have commerce with the 
Indians that are yet more northerly, who have commerce with 
those whom the French teach to pray to such idols, therefore 
they think the idols and idolatry come from them". 

June 3. His daughter, Hannah, married to Habbackuc Glover 
"pr. Tho. Dudley, Dept. Gov r . 

Joshua Seaver "entered into the family of the Rev d Mr. John 
Eliot of Roxbury, deceased, to dwell with him, on the same day 
that the aforenamed Habackuk Glover was married unto Mrs. 
Hannah Eliot". (From deposition, dated May 11, 1725.) 

June 17. Baptizes his grandson, John Bowles. 

June 18. Date of a letter to Thomas Thorowgood, in which 
he writes : — "I have this Winter translated the whole book of 
the Psalms". 

Sept. 1. Meeting of the Commissioners of the United 
Colonies. They say Mr. Eliot should not write to the Corpora- 
tion in England, but should make known his wants through the 
Commissioners. 



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Oct. 24. Date of a letter to Thomas Thorowgood in which 
he speaks of "our Indian work". 

"The Indian Apostle, Rev. John Eliot . . . received a grant 
of 'the Great Neck', lying between Pawtucket falls on the 
Merrimack and the Massic falls on the Concord, as a reserve 
for the Christianized Indians. This tract was known as 
Wamesit." 

The tract, "Tears of Repentance" was published. It con- 
tains an address to "His Excellency, the Lord General Ccrom- 
wel", and one "to the Reader" — both signed by John Eliot. 

1654. 

"13 th of the 4 th . Indians of Natick examined by Mr. Eliot 
and others at Roxbury in regard to religious matters, prior to 
the formation of a church among them." 

July 20. At Newton, Mass., where a church was then 
organized, and John Eliot, Jr., ordained. 

Aug. 27. Again thanks Thomas Thorowgood for sending 
goods. 

Sept. 18. Date of a letter from the Commissioners of the 
United Colonies to Mr. Eliot. 

Sept. 25. The Commissioners write to the Corporation : — 
"It is an afflicting Consideration that the worke" (among the 
Indians) "should Receiue any discouragement or hindrance 
either from Mr. Eliot's pen or Mr. Peters Speech.' 

In October Mr. Increase Nowell and Mr. John Eliot are sent 
to Nashaway by the General Court to influence the Indians in 
their choice of a sagamore as successor of Shawanon. 

A Catechism, prepared by Mr. Eliot, for the instruction of the 
Indians, was printed in their language at Cambridge. 

1655. 

Aug. 16. Thanks Thomas Thorowgood for goods sent. 

Speaks of "The Lord's work among the' Indians", giving 
particulars — of "the printing of the Bible in their Language. 
Genesis is printed, and we are upon Matthew, but our progresse 
is slow, and hands short." 

Aug. 29. Mr. Eliot writes to the Commissioners and they 
reply. 



2 28 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Sept. 15. Date of a letter of the Commissioners of the 
United Colonies to the Corporation in England. They do not 
understand why goods "severed from the rest" should be sent 
especially to Mr. Eliot. 

Sept. 27. Wattalloowekin and Nakin, two chiefs of the 
Quabaug Indians, gave John Eliot a tract of land (1000 acres) 
at Pookookuppog or Alum Ponds, now in the town of Stur- 
bridge, Mass. 

Nov. 19. His son Aaron dies. 

"25 of 8 th 1655." Date of a petition to the General Court 
from John and Susan Heindon of Braintree for assistance in 
the maintenance of an insane son, "poor Joseph Heindon", 
signed by John Eliot and others. 

"A Late and Further Manifestation of the Progress of the 
Gospel amongst the Indians in New England", published. 

Eliot's "Indian version of Genesis and the Gospel of Mat- 
thew," printed. 

Brookfield, a place known as the Indian town of Quaboags, 
visited by John Eliot. 

1656. 

Aug. 30. Mr. Eliot desires the Commissioners to appoint 
agents in Massachusetts to promote and forward the work 
among the Indians. 

Oct. 16. Date of a letter to Thomas Thorowgood, in which 
he speaks of his Indian work — of a journey to the Connecticut 
Indians "this summer" — of his son, now middle Batchelour, 
who had been accepted by the Commissioners as a "Labourer" 
among the Indians. He also writes "My Heavenly father is 
pleased to lay his visiting hand upon me, and I am not able to 
sit up . . . indeed he was nigh unto death" &c. 

Under the same date, he writes respecting the "former 
labours" of Thorowgood" about the Jews in America. 

2 d 9 m . "M r Eliot our Teacher having been Exercised w th y e 
Sciatica, & endured much anguish, dolour & by that means 
detained fro the house of God, & we deprived of his pretious 
labours, & that for y e space of 10 weekes, this day came abroad 
into the assembly (through God's mercy) & gave us a task of 
God's gratious remembrance of him in his low estate. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 229 

I657- 

July 3. John Alderman of Salem, in his will, gives "to Mr. 
Elliot one cow, and one calf to y e Indians y* Mr. Elliot doth 
preach unto to be disposed of to them by him" 

Oct. 7. Date of a letter to Thomas Thorowgood, in which 
he writes : — "The Lord is pleased to release me of the vigor of 
my paines, yet leaveth me a remnant of affliction, and I am 
not able to endure either cold, or wet, but I am ready to be cast 
down." 

Oct. 8. Date of a letter to Mr. Hord, Treasurer in regard to 
"Indian affairs." He writes that he had been sick, and he says : 
— "My disease hangeth about me still, but not in vigor", "if I 
travel either in wet or cold, it doth shake me much, and is ready 
to lay me up again" 

Oct. 22. His brother, Philip, one of the Deacons of the 
Church, died. 

During the year, he preached to the Padunk Indians at Hart- 
ford, Conn., in their language. Their chief men "utterly 
refused to accept Jesus Christ as their Saviour". 

Mr. Eliot and Mr. Danforth allowed £60 each per annum, 
paid generally in corn or otherwise to their content. Mr. Eliot 
had eight in his family. Both had estate in corn and cattle. 

He writes a letter to Major Atherton in regard to the laying 
out of Punkapoag. 

The Commissioners of the United Colonies discharged his 
brother at the end of this year who was his assistant "in civile 
affairss". 

1658. 

Sept. 2. Mr. Joseph Eliot was "tendered" by his father 
(the "Apostle") to the Commissioners for the Indian work. 

"15 th of the 9 th ". Fast at Natick, when a number of Indians 
delivered exhortations for an "epitomy" of which, see the 
tract entitteled, "A further accompt of the Progresse of the 
Gospel" &c. 

"10 th of 10 th ". Under this date, he writes to the Corporation 
in England — "For my selfe I feele my strength to decay, and I 
am not able to doe and bear what I have done, and though 
temptation may sometime breed waverings, yet my soul, doth 
desire & beleeve, that I shall live and dye in this work. And 



230 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

as I have dedicated my sons to serve the Lord in this work (if 
he please to accept them) so I doe it as they come up ; and this 
year my second son having taken his first degree in the Colledge, 
I presented him unto our Commissioners and he is accepted 
unto the work : which mercy my soul doth greatly rejoice in." 

"28 th of the 10 th ". Date of a letter to the Treasurer of the 
Corporation for New England" in the pamphlet mentioned 
above. 

"In December, he had completed, except final revision, his 
translation of the whole Bible into the Massachusetts dialect" 
"before the end of 1658", "he added" to works previously 
published, "translations of a few Psalms in meter." 

In 1658, Genesis and Matthew were in print and in use at 
Natick. 

1659. 

May 12. Date of a "Manuscript state paper" in regard to 
the Nipmuk Indians. 

"15 th of 2 nd Moneth". Date of a meeting in which Indians 
make Confessions with a view to Church Fellowship. 

"5 th of 5 th Moneth". Conducts another meeting for the same 
purpose. 

Sept. 7. "the first sheet of the New Testament was in type 
before" this date. 

Sept. 30. Witnesses the will of John Johnson of Roxbury. 

Probably not long before the gathering of the first Indian 
church at Natick in 1660, "A Christian Covenanting Confes- 
sion," printed on a single page, small 4to, in two columns, 
Indian and English, was published. 

This year he preaches the election sermon, which was not 
printed. 

"The Christian Commonwealth" said to have been published 
this year. 

1660. 

Jan. 19. Requested to oversee "ye fulfilling" the last will 
of Isaac Heath, for which he is to receive 20 s . 

March 18. The Governor and Council passed upon "The 
Christian Commonwealth." It was condemned, and by order 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 231 

of the General Court, suppressed. Mr. Eliot explains, and in 
due time his acknowledgment is posted, or is ordered to be 
posted in the public places of all the chief towns of the colony. 

May 26. Date of an article addressed to "the Noble Knights, 
Ladies, and Gentlemen of Norfolk" &c, in which Mr. Eliot is 
for the first time "stiled the Indian Apostle" by Thomas 
Thorowgood. 

Dec. 9. Preaches in the afternoon at Dorchester on a day 
of humiliation, from Job. 3. 25. 

"The twenty-five of ye eleventh month". After a printed 
Inventory of "all ye goods" &c of "Elder Isaac Heath," his 
name is signed to the following: — "This accott was taken and 
accepted by the overseers of ye said will before this Inventory 
was put into ye Court" 

This year "Jewes in America" by Thorowgood was pub- 
lished. An accurate discourse is premised by Mr. John Eliot 
touching their Origination" &c. 

This year the Indian church at Natick was formed. 

1661. 

March 28. Date of a letter to Gov. Endicott in regard to the 
sachem Ousamequin, written from Natick. 

Ap. 29. Date of a letter from the Hadley church, in which 
advice is asked. 

"18. 4". Mr. John Eliot, Sen., Goodman Williams" were 
messengers from the church of Christ at Roxbury, when the 
church at Northampton was gathered. Mr. Eliot and Mr. 
Russell then and there ordained the Rev. Eleazer Mather. 

May 22. At the Session of the General Court, Mr. Eliot's 
book, entitled "Christian Commonwealth," was brought to 
notice, and action taken. 

May 24. Date of Mr. Eliot's acknowledgment that he had 
"offended". 

Sept. 5. When the Commissioners met at this date, the New 
Testament was "finished, printed and set forth", and the 
impression of the Old had advanced to the end of the 
Pentateuch. 

"23 d : nmo. Mr. Eliot becomes bondman for some Indians. 
IS 



232 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

l662. 

Feb. 7. Date of the New England Company's charter. Its 
full title was "The Company for the Propagation of the Gospel 
in New England and the parts adjacent in America''. 

Mr. Eliot's salary from this company was £50 a year. 

Apr. 20. Mr. Eliot's servant, Joshua Seaver, was brought 
before the church and convicted of lying and stealing which he 
confessed. 

Ap. 22. "John Eliot, Sen., John Eliot, Jr.," witnesses of a 
deed, given by an Indian, of land where now is the town of 
Mendon, Mass. 

July 20. Was present at, and assisted at the ordination of 
his son, John Eliot Jr., as the first minister of the church in 
Cambridge Village, (subsequently Newton). 

Sept. 8. "John Eliot, Sen r John Eliott Jr.," and "Daniel 
Weld Senior," witnesses of a deed, given to Moses Paine and 
Peter Brackett, by some Indians. 

During the year, there was a new impression of the Indian 
Catechism. 

1663. 

"6 th of the 5 th . Date of a letter to Richard Baxter in regard 
to the Hebrew language and other matters. 

"My work about the Indian Bible being . . . finished." 

"I have begun the work" (translation of Baxter's Call) 
already." 

At the end of the translation of this work is this — "Finetur, 
1663, December 31." 

"Nov. 17 in the yeare 1663 in a publicke Towne meeting it 
being voted it was unanimously agreed by all the inhabitants 
that they would allow to Mr. John Eliot and Mr. Samuell 
Danforth for there Labour in the ministry for the halfe yeare 
last past the sum of sixty pounds." 

1664. 

"this 25 of the 6V Date of a letter in regard to the work 
among the Indians to the Commissioners of the United Colonies 
at their meeting in Hartford, Conn, in Sept. 1664. This letter 
is printed in the Colonial Records of Conn., 1678-1689, pp. 
483-6. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 233 

From this letter it appears that during the "winter past", 
"Phillip and his people of Sowamset" sent to Mr. Eliot "for 
books to learne to read, in order to praying unto God", which 
he sent unto him, and "p r sents w th all ; and my sonne hath been 
twice w th them, and taught among them, and both my sonne 
and myself e are ingaged to visit them afore winter (if God 
p'vent us not:) w ch we had purposed to have done afore this 
sitting of your selves, but that you may easyly conceive w l 
unexpected ocasions of delay have fallen out" 

Aug. 26. Writes to Rob* Boyle concerning the Indian Gram- 
mar and other matters. 

Before the end of August, a thousand copies of Baxter's Call 
had been printed and distributed to the Indians. 

In August, "Mr. Shepard's Sincere Convert and Sound 
Believer almost translated". 

Nov. 1. His son, "Mr. Samuel Eliot", dies. 

During this year, the Indian Psalter was published. 

1665. 

Sept. 13. The Commissioners of the United Colonies write 
to the Hon. Robt. Boyle : "wee understand by Mr. Elliot y l 
yo r honours have ordered him to translate into y e Indian 
Language & cause to bee printed y e Practice of Piety and some 
works of Mr. Shepherds" &c. 

Nov. 11. Date of letter to Sir Robert Carr, one of his 
"Majesties Honorable Commissioners" in behalf of Prenham 
and other Indians. Sir Robert Carr's reply is severe. 

Dec. 7. His sister Lydia, widow of James Penniman, mar- 
ried to Thomas Wight of Dedham. 

Bishop Bayly's "Practice of Piety" published this year. 

Communion of Churches also published. 

1666. 

"The Indian Grammar begun" &c. published. 

"Mr. Eliot accompany 'd by the Honourable Governour, and 
several Magistrates and Ministers of Plymouth Colony procured 
a vast Assembly at Marshippaug and there a good number of 
Indians made confession" who afterwards "became a church 
and chose Mr. Bourn to be their Pastor," who was then 



234 . DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

ordained by Mr. Eliot and Mr. Cotton. These ministers then 
went over to Martha's Vineyard, and gathered a church of 
Indians there. 

Feb. 28. Date of a letter of Sir Robert Carr, an English 
Commissioner, to John Eliot, in which he takes "the Apostle" 
to task for alleged improper interference in an affair relative 
to the removal of an Indian, named Popham. 

1668. 

"On 14.5.(1668) M r Eliott M r Thatcher M r Stoughton & 
M r Torry came being Desired by y e Chh to give advice" respect- 
ing the minister. 

Sept. 10. "Mr. Eliot, the elder" had £20 for amunition for 
the Christian Indians in order that they might defend them- 
selves against hostile Indians : also for cards for the Indian 
women, in order to improve them "in preparing Cotton wool 
for the wheele" 

Oct. 13. His son, John Eliot jun., dies. 

Nov. 24. Chosen one of the Feoffees of the Free School in 
Roxbury. 

"25* of 12*". Date of a covenant with John Pruden, signed 
by John Eliot and others. 

1669. 

"20 th of the 3d M." Date of "Eliot's petition to the General 
Court . . . for a renewal and confirmation of the school 
charter" 

25. 5. (1669)." "God sent a very solemne awakening 
Message to the church of the Rev. Mr. Josiah Flynt by M r 
Eliot fro Jer. 29. 30" 

Oct. 14. Date of a petition of John Eliot in behalf of the 
poor Indians at Natick. Another petition to the General Court, 
setting forth grievances of the "poor Indians at Natick," and 
asking for redress, was presented during this year. 

Oct. 22. The Commissioners of the United Colonies write 
to the Hon. Robert Boyle that having been "informed by Mr. 
Eliot & Mr. Bourne that the instruction of the Indians is 
greatly obstructed for want of a small primer and Cattachisme 
in their Language," "we have ordered the printing" of one 
"prepared by Mr. Eliot" 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 235 

Letter from Mr. Eliot to the Hon. Robert Boyle in regard to 
the state of the Indians in 1669. 

"the truth is the word suffereth for want of due following, 
& my purpose is (through the grace of Christ) while I live to 
follow the work & not slack in any dependance on man" 

Nov. 10. John Blackleach writes to John Winthrop Jr. — 
"Mr. Eliot gaue mee an Indian Bible, and diurse other books 
in the Indian tongue, and added his prayers for my good suc- 
cesse therein, & promised mee to mencion my name to the 
Commissioners, & to them in England" 

n* of the 9/ 69" Date of a letter in reply to one from the 
Rev. Mr. Allin of Dedham. 

1670. 

"24. 2". "M r Eliott Preached here" (Braintree) "& Pre- 
vented much evill intended." 

11 th May". His name with others signed to a document in 
which the Rev. Mr. Flynt is vindicated from charges of 
Heterodoxys. 

17 of the 6 th . Attends a meeting at Maktapog near Sandwich 
in Plimouth. Pattent to gather a church among the Indians. 
From this place Eliot and Cotton went to Martha's Vineyard to 
ordain Hiacomes. 

Soon after the Rev. Mr. Bourne is ordained pastor of an 
Indian church at Mashpee. 

"20 th of the 7 th ". Date of "A brief Narrative" &c. 

Sept. 25. Date of an indenture between John Eliot and 
others and John Holbrook. 

Sept. 30. 1670. In a letter of this date to Robert Boyle, he 
thanks him for the gift of "Poole's Synopsis, or Critica Sacra 
upon the whole Bible." 

In regard to his work among the Indians, he writes, "I 
have some thoughts, if God give life and means, to read medi- 
cine and call for such roots (for they altogether use the root 
and not the herb) as they have experience of, especially had I 
werewith to recompense any that bring in a desirable experiment. 

There hath been a rare work of God this summer in a great 
pond at Watertown, where all the fish died, and were not willing 
to die in the waters, but as many as could, thrust themselves 
on shore, and there died; not less than twenty cart loads, by 



236 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

estimation lying dead, all at once, round about the pond. An 
eel was found alive on the sandy border of the pond and being 
cast into the water, she wriggled out again, as fast as she 
could, and died on the shore. An inhabitant of the town, living 
by the pond, his cattle used daily to drink there, but then for 
three days together, they refused there to drink, but after 
three days they drank of the pond as they were wont to do. 
When the fish began to come ashore, before they died, many 
were taken and eaten, both by English and Indians without any 
hurt and the fish were good. 

Now the disease of the stone groweth frequently among the 
English, and beginneth among the Indians ; which stirreth me 
to search, and I clearly find, that a crude stomach provides the 
matter and cold in and about the bladder and ureters is the 
efficient cause of the stone, especially in those, whom I have 
conversed with, as may be demonstrated. But I am over bold 
to presume to meddle so far unto your honor." 

Nov. 30. Date of a letter to "worthy Mr. Ashurst," Treas- 
urer, in regard to Indian affairs. 

"the truth is the word suffereth for want of due following, 
& my purpose is (through the grace of Christ) while I live to 
follow the work, & not slack in my dependance upon man" 

Writes to Robert Boyle in regard to "a lecture on logic and 
theology" at Natick. 

1671. 

Jan. 25. Date of a lease made between Mr. John Eliot, 
William Park & c , feoffees of the free school in Roxbury, on the 
one part, and Capt Isaak Johnson and Robert Pepper on the 
other. 

"16 th of the 4 th ". Date of a letter to Mr. Prince, Governour 
of Plymouth, in regard to the management of the Indians. 

Aug. 1. Date of "Instructions from the church at Natick 
to William and Anthony", signed by "John Eliot, with the 
consent of the Church." 

"4 th 7 th . Mr. Eliot wants something allowed to meet the 
"great charges" incurred by dismissing members of the church 
of Natik into a "church cstatt at Nipmuk river 40 miles fro 
the Bay. And the rather I am bold to propose it, because in all 
the publik meetings, motions, journeys, translations, attend- 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 237 

ances on the press, & other occasions y* I have attended in this 
work, I have never had (to my knowledge and remembrance) 
the least acknowledgm t fro your selves, or one penny supply, 
save my bare Salary, and I am forced now to move, because I 
am fallen into debt I ow unto Mr Usher ioo u at least for wch 
all y e years Salary is bound before it come & more also. And 
y r fore I request you to pay this debt of mine, did I not conceive 
th 3 * something is due unto me, I should not make so bold, for 
to beg I am ashamed." 

"I will never give over the worke so long as I have legs to 
goe." This said because he was in desperate need of money 
for his work. "I am at a dead lift in the work, if the Lord 
stir up the hearts of men to help me, blessed be his name, & 
blessed be they y* help me, if no man help me, yet myne eyes are 
to the Lord who hath saide, he will never leave me nor forsake 
me, and when these debts are paide it will not be long ere I 
shall run into debt againe" &c 

"Our meeting for Prophesy, & for our logik readings, doth 
goe on with a blessing" 

"Further I doe p r sent you w f h o r Indians A. B. C & o r Indian 
Dialog 3 " &c 

"the number of o r fixed Teachers are ten, & the number of 
o r fixed Rulers are ten" &c. 

"The church at Natik, having in it sundry young men, who 
w r w 11 I first began, children & youths. w m I did catechise, & so 
traine up ever since these now are, sundry of y m , able to teach, 
for y e further & better fitting unto y t work, we have set up an 
exercise of Prophesy according to 1 Cor. 14. w r in 4 of y m 
exercise in one day, & I moderate & order y m . theire pfiting 
hereby, is very evident to all. it puteth life into y m ." 

"this i 1 of December 71". He writes to the Hon. Robert 
Boyle : — "I doe also take the boldnesse to charge another bill of 
8o !i upon the Right hono r able Corporation. I moved it to o r 
w r pfl Comissioners, but they were pleased to answ r me with 
silence. I am at a dead lift if you help me not, I am lamed, & 
quite disabled". 

Dec. 27. Mr. Eliot managed the ordination and gave the 
charge when the Rev. Mr. Flint was ordained at Dorchester. 



238 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

1672. 

Jan. 29. Thomas Bell bequeaths lands and tenements to John 
Eliot and others for the support of a free school at Roxbury. 

During this year, "A brief Narrative of the Progress of the 
Gospel amongst the Indians in New Engld in the year 1670. 
Given in by the Rev. J. E.," etc. was published. 

May 22. "A fast kept by y e General Court at Boston in y e 
Court House, y e work carried on by 6 ministers, Mr. Whiting, 
Cobbet, Oxenbridge', Eliot, Oakes, Mather." 

March 5. Date of a petition in regard to students in Har- 
vard College, signed by twenty four inhabitants of Roxbury, 
John Eliot being one of the signers. Pride "in their long 
haire" is particularly mentioned. 

The "Indian Logick Primer" is published this year. 

1673. 

Aug. 22. Date of an account of Indian churches in New 
England in a letter" &c 

All the Indian churches furnished with officers, except that 
at Natick, "and in modesty they stand off, because so long as 
I live, they say there is no need ; but we propose (God willing) 
not always to rest in this answer" 

In 1673 & 4, Eliot and Gookin journeyed through the 
Nipmuck country, where seven new praying towns in the 
territory were occupied by the towns of Ward, Oxford, 
Uxbridge, Dudley and Woodstock. 

1674. 

"12 th day I st month." John Oxenbridge of Boston leaves 
his "Manuscripts to be disposed of by my Executrix w th y e 
advise of my overseers, and in particular y e Plea for y e Dumb 
Indian and Colonies to M r Eliot or any other they shall see 
meet" 

Sept. 14. Capt. Daniel Gookin and the Rev. John Eliot "took 
another journey" to the Indians residing in Woodstock. Ct., 
and its vicinity. 

Sept. 16. They were at Wabquassit (in Woodstock, Conn.) 
wher Mr. Eliot preached to the Indians. 

Sept. 18. They took leave of the settlements in the Nipmuck 
country, going home by way of Marlborough. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 239 

The beginning - of Sunday Schools in America is shown by 
the following quotation : 

Oct. 6. "This day we restored our primitive practice for the 
training of our youth. First our male youth in fitting season, 
stay every Sabbath after the evening exercise in the public 
meeting house where the elders will examine their remembrance 
that day of any fit poynt of catechise. Secondly, our female 
youth should meet in one place — (on Monday) where the elders 
may examine them on their remembrance of yesterday about 
catechise and what else may be convenient." 

Nov. 15. "We first met & worshiped God in o r new meeting 
house". 

Nov. 19. "My Brother Danforth made the most glorious 
end I ever saw." 

Dec. 20. Hears "sad news fro New York, where y ei are 
p'pairing to reduce Southampton & Southold on Long Island by 
force of arms, because y ei stand for theire liberty". 

Dec. 25. "went to Watertown to be p r esent at the cuting of 
Livermore's daughter of a wonder full great timpany. the 
op r ation succeeded at the p r sent blessed be the Lord" The next 
day she died. About fifteen gallons of water were taken from 
her, some at the operation, and the remainder after death. 

This year, at Wamesit (now Tewkesbury) Wanmalancet, 
eldest son of Passaconaway, became a convert under Mr. Eliot's 
preaching. 

This year Philip's war began, waged for the purpose of 
exterminating the whites. 

"Month 4 l 11 th day Soone after the warr w th the Indians 
brake forth, the history w r off I canot, I may not relate, the 
prophane Indians p've a sharp rod to the English, & the English 
p've a very sharp rod to the praying Indians" 

24 th of the 5 th . Date of a letter to John Winthrop jr. in 
regard to various matters relating to the Indians. 

Aug. 13. Sends "a petition to the General Court, against 
selling Indians for slaves". 

An Indian prisoner, sold as a slave in Boston, and sent to 
Jamaica, was through the intercession of Mr. Eliot, brought 
back. The wife and two children of this prisoner, captives, 
were by him redeemed. 



240 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Eliot and Gookin defended at Boston a number of Christian 
Indians who were accused of the murder of several persons at 
Lancaster. 

Oct. 29. Eliot met about two hundred Indians, men, women 
and children, at a place called The Pines, on Charles river two 
miles above Cambridge. They had been taken from Natick, 
and on the 30 th of October were transported to Deer Island. 

Towards the end of December, Gookin, Eliot and others 
visited the Indians at Deer Island several times — about five 
hundred having been collected there from various places. 

In the autumn of 1675, Eliot and Gookin were sent to urge 
the sachem Wannalamcet, who had fled in fear from his resi- 
dence, to return. 

In Dec. Eliot, with Captain Gookin, visited a company of 
Indians at Concord. 

Major Gookin, Major Willard, and Mr. Eliot went as a 
Committee appointed by ''the Council at Boston" to Chelms- 
ford and other places to encourage and quiet the Indians. 

Dec. 17. Date of a letter to Robert Boyle, in which these 
facts, and others of great interest, are related. 

Joseph Tuckapawillin, minister and pastor of the church at 
Hassanamesit, was visited by Eliot (his spiritual father in 
Christ) "and spoke divers words of comfort to him suitable to 
his condition". 

In the will of Thomas Waterman of Roxbury, who died Jan. 
22. 1675, there is a bequest to "Mrs. John Eliot." In the will 
of his second wife, Margaret, dated May 19, 1670, probated 
"27 (12) 1682," there are bequests to "the Indian Church at 
Nonantum", to Messrs Eliot and Danforth". 

1676. 

Ap. 7. While on their way to Long Island in Boston harbor, 
"to order matters for the Indians", the boat, in the stern of 
which the company were sitting, was run into by a great boat. 
Mr. Eliot "so sunke y*" he "drank in salt water twice and 
could not help it", "some thanked God & some wished we had 
bene drowned. Soon after, one y* wished we had bene drowned 
was himself e drowned about the same place w r we w r so wonder- 
fully delivered" 

June 14. "I was at the Court, called to be there". 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 241 

June 15. "I visited the p r soners" — probably "Captain Tom 
Indian and J no Oldtuck, Indian enemys who were subsequently 
hung" 

June 21. Visited the prisoners and afterwards interceded in 
vain for Capt. Tom. "The Govenor did exp re sse how bad a 
man Tom was. I told him, y* at the great day he should find 
y* Christ was of anoth r mind, or words to y* purpose, so I 
dep'ted". 

June 22. "I accompany* 1 him to his death". 

Some of the Indians, who had been at Deer Island, settled at 
Nonantum, where Mr. Eliot preached to them once a fortnight. 
He also lectured to another company of Indians near Brush Hill 
in Milton. 

"So soone as we condescended to impr've o r praying Indians 
in the warr, fro y* day forward we always p'sp'd untill God 
pleased to teare the rod in peeces, p'ly by conquest, p u y by theire 
sicknesse & death, & hath brought us peace, praised be his 
name. But no sooner was y l rod broken, p r esently the North- 
eastern war broke forth". 

1677. 

Jan. 11. Date of a letter from John Eliot and others to the 
churches in Dublin, in which they acknowledge the receipt of 
contributions. 

"month 2. The Indian war now about to finish, wherein the 
praying Indians had so eminent an interest in the recording 
whereoff I thought not my selfe so fitting. I desisted fro this 
work of recording p'ticular matters & knowing y* it was 
comited to oth r s I declined it, but now, on 2 d thought I blame 
my selfe for it, Lord p'don my many omissions, the successe 
of o r Indians was highly accepted w tb the souldiers, & y ei now 
welcomed where ev r y ei met y m y ei had y m to the ordinarys, 
made y m drink, & bred y r by such an habit to love strong drink, 
y* it p'ved an horrible snare unto us. y ei learned so to love 
strong drink y* y ei would spend all y r wages, & pawne any thing 
they had for rumb or any strong drink ; so drunkenesse 
increased & quarreling & fighting were the sad effects of strong 
drink. Praying to God was quenched, the younger generation 
being debauched by it, and the good old generation of the first 



242 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

beginers gathered home by death. So y l Satan imp'ved y s 
op'tunity to defile, debase, & bring into contempt the whole 
work of praying to God. a great apostacy defiled us. And yet 
through grace some stood & doe stand, and the work is on foot 
to this day, praised be the Lord, when the Indians were 
hurried away to an Hand at half an hou r s warning, pore souls 
in terror y ei left theire goods, books, bibles, only some few caryed 
y r bibles, the rest were spoyled & lost, So y* w 11 the wares w r 
finished, & y ei returned to y r places y ei w r greatly impov'ished, 
but y ei especially bewailed y r want of Bibles, y s made me medi- 
tate upon a 2 d imp r ssion of o'Bible, & accordingly tooke pains 
to revise the first edition. I also intreated m r John Cotton to 
help in y k work, he having obtained some ability so to doe. 
he read over the whole bible, & whatever doubts he had, he writ 
them down in order, & gave y m to me, to try y m & file y m over 
among o r Indians. I obtained the favor to reprint the New 
testam*, & psalms, but I met w th much obstruction for reprinting 
the old testam*, yet by prayre to God, Patience & intreatye, I 
at last obteined y* also, praised be the Lord." 

In this year probably Eliot writes a letter, attesting the cor- 
rectness of Gookin's "Historical account of the Doings and 
Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England in the 
years 1675, 1676, 1677" &c. 

This year, John Watson, sen. and Henry Prentiss resided 
among the Praying Indians at Natick "for about twelve weeks," 
and testified that they "behaved themselves both religiously 
towards God, and respectively, obediently, and faithfully to the 
English" &c. 

Oct. 23, 1677. Date of a letter to Robert Boyle, in which 
he mentions, in most grateful language, the support which the 
Indians had received from the "Right Honorable nursing 
fathers" in England. He goes on to say: — "In our first war 
with the Indians, God pleased to show us the vanity of our 
military skill, in managing our arms, after the European mode. 
Now we are glad to learn the skulking way of war. And what 
God's end is. in teaching us such a way of discipline, I know 
not." 

1678. 
June 27. In the English Manuscripts at Albany. N. Y.. vol. 
xxvii, p. 140, is a letter from Cap 1 . Salisbury to Capt. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 243 

Brockholls in which is the account of the arrival at Albany of 
a party of Mohawks, with twenty two Natick Indians, taken 
near Sudbury, Mass., one of whom brought a copy of Eliot's 
Indian Bible. 

This year, "The Harmony of the Gospels" was published. 

1679. 

March 16. He declares his intention of laying down his 
trust as a Feoffe of the Free school. 

Aug. 25. At a meeting of the Commissioners of the United 
Colonies, in Boston, "appeared the Rev. Mr. John Eliot, and 
made a motion referring to the re-printing of the (Indian) 
Bible". 

"This motion had been preferred, by Mr. Eliot, at the previous 
meeting in March "when, the Commissioners having had some 
debate about the matter, do judge it most expedient to defer the 
determination thereof to the next meeting". 

Sept. A "Reforming Synod" of ten days duration was held 
in Boston to revise the "Platform of Discipline" and for other 
purposes. The "motion" for this Synod was in the form of a 
memorial from twenty of the Reverend Elders, signed first 
by John Eliot, and secondly by Increase Mather. 

His "A Brief Answer to a small book, written by John 
Norcot, against Infant Baptism", published this year. 

1680. 

June 3. "Mr. Torrey had another sore Fit in Lectur-time, 
old Mr. Eliot Preaching." 

July 8. Visited by Dankers and Sluyter, to whom he gave 
"the Old Testament and also the New Testament, made up 
with some sheets of the new edition, so that we have the Old 
and New Testament Complete" They write "The best of the 
Ministers, who we have yet heard, is a very old man, named 
John Eliot, who has charge of the instruction of the Indians 
in the Christian religion" 

July 13. Second visit by Dankers and Sluyter. 

Oct. 5. "Mr. John Eliot", a legatee in the will of John 
Bowles, proved, Oct. 5. 

Nov. 4. 1680. Sends a letter of this date to Robert Boyle 
which abounds in expressions of gratitude, and has much to 



244 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

say in regard to the Indians. "Our praying Indians both on 
the Islands, and on the main, are considered together numerous ; 
thousands of souls, of whom some are true believers, some 
learners, and some are still infants, and all of them beg, cry, 
entreat for Bibles, having already enjoyed that blessing, but 
now are in great want. Your honor's liberality in English 
Bibles is a great favour which we all with thankfulness receive ; 
but the Bible in their own tongue must help them to under- 
stand it" 

Dec. 23. "Good old Mr. Eliot preached y e Lecture yesterday, 
1. Thes. 1. 10. Use To celebrate Christ's Praise: from which 
he took occasion to speak agt-fmas — keeping ; w ch he did with 
a great deal of strength of Reason & Grace ; shewing y* y e 
very Title yy gave y e Day & Games was a great Profanation of 
y e Name of our Lord & Saviour" 

Second edition -of the New Testament in Indian, published. 

"The Dying Speeches of several Indians". 8vo. pp. 12, 
supposed to have been printed at Cambridge. 

1681. 

i/ 1 of the 4*. Mr. Eliot writes to the Hon. Rob 1 Boyle: — 
"Untill we have Bibles, we are not furnished to carry the Gospel 
unto y m for we have no means to carry religion thither saving 
by the Scriptures, this very argument (besides all the rest w c h 
are many & weighty) doth continually instigate my heart, to 
have the Bible printed. I see y l the charge doth somewhat 
surmount, (by some accidental impediments) my expectation; 
but I beseech your hono r let yot yt be so much as named to be 
an impediment of such a work". 

June 1. Was one of four who "laid on hands" when Mr. 
Peter Thacher was ordained Pastor of the Church at Milton. 

July 18. John Foster, A.B., Harv., in his will, made in 1667, 
gave John Eliot, Increase Mather, and Cotton Mather, 20s, 
each. 

Sept. 14. Was present at a Court held at Natick, as one of 
the Interpreters. 

Nov. 16. .Sarah Eliot, his grandchild, married to John 
Bowles by Mr. Eliot. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 245 

1682. 

March 15, 1682. In his letter of this date to Robert Boyle, 
he writes : — "The great work which I travel about, is, the 
printing of the Old Testament, that they may have the whole 
Bible ... I desire to see it done before I die, and I am so deep 
in years, that I cannot expect to live long ; besides, we have but 
one man (viz. the Indian printer) that is able to compose the 
sheets, and correct the press with understanding". 

May 29. "We (the Commissioners of the United Colonies) 
have also found it needful to allow Reverend Mr. Elliot (now 
growne very aged in this service) a servant to attend him when 
he goes his Journies amongst the Indians". 

June 2. Was desired to give the charge when Mr. John 
Danforth was ordained at Dorchester. 

June 28. "Old Mr. Elliot gave the charge, Mr. Elliot, Mr. 
Wilson & Mr. Mather laid on hands" at Mr. Danforth's ordi- 
nation at Dorchester. 

Nov. 15. At the ordination of Mr. Nath. Gookin, Pastor of 
Cambridge church, Mr. Eliot gives the right hand of Fellowship, 
first reading the Scripture that warrants it. Mr. Sherman, Mr. 
Eliot and Mr. Mather "laid on hands". 

1683. 

Feb. 13. Rev. Peter Thacher records in his journal that he 
was at a fast of the General Court and that "Mr. Torrey, Mr. 
Willard, Mr. Allon & Mr. J. Mather officiated & Mr. Eliot— 
we supped together at Wing.s". 

March 1. "the Profitt of Mr. Mouchees Gift wee (Com- 
missioners of the United Colonies) have allotted (& during his 
life shall allot) to Reverend Mr. Elliot allowing him an additional 
Sallary to make up a competency for his great paines in so great 
a service the fulle reward whereof waits for him in another 
world" 

March 15. Date of a letter to the Hon. Robert Boyle. 

March 19. Date of a letter to the "Worthy and Reverend 
Mr. Eliot", signed by sixteen Indians, who ask him to use his 
influence with the "Right Honorable ye Gov. & Corporation for 
Propagating the Gospel in America", that they may continue 
to have the services of their "worthy minister, Mr. Gookin". 



246 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

June 21. 1683. In his letter to Robert Boyle, he is most 
anxious for the publication of the whole Bible. "My age makes 
me importunate. I shall depart joyfully, may I but leave the 
Bible among them ; for it is the word of life ; and there be 
some godly souls that live thereby". 

July 29. "The first Ind ordeyned Minest was Daniel of 
Natick". 

Nov. 27, 1683. Date of letter to "Right Honorable, right 
charitable, indefatigable, nursing father," Robert Boyle. He 
apologizes for the urgent haste to have the Bible printed. "I 
am deep in years, and sundry say, if I do not procure it printed 
while I live, it is not within the prospect of human reason, 
whether ever, or when, or how it may be accomplished". 

He makes a request of Mr. Boyle to do what he could to 
restore to their native land some Indians at Tangier who had 
been sold for slaves. "If the Lord shall please to move your 
charitable heart herein, I shall be obliged in great thankfulness, 
and am persuaded, that Christ will at the great day, reckon it 
among your deeds of charity done unto them for his name's 
sake". 

1684. 

Ap. 22, 1684. In a letter of this date, he is most thankful 
for "This last gift of four hundred pounds for the reimpression 
of the Indian Bible". It "doth set a diadem of beauty upon all 
your former acts of pious charity". He then dwells at consid- 
erable length upon the work among the Indians, their manner of 
worship, and the localities of the Indian Praying towns. 

May 13. "The Reverend Cotton Mather at his ordination 
received the Fellowship of the Churches from the celebrated 
Eliot". 

July 8. "This day" (the Rev. Peter Thacher writes) "the 
Major General & old Mr. Elliot were at my house to speak to me 
about preaching a lecture to the Indians once a month". 

1685. 

May 8. Mr. Eliot "abroad and preached" 

May 9. Samuel Sewall went with Mr. Moodey to Mr. 
Eliot's to persuade his son, Benjamin, to go to the ordination of 
Mr. Cotton Mather . . . "the mentioning of it drew tears from 
the good Father so as to hinder his speech". 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 247 

May 13. "Mr. Eliot gave the Right Hand of Fellowship" 
at the ordination, calling him a Lover of Jesus Christ". "Mr. 
Benjamin Eliot was there who had not been in Town these 
many years". 

May 22. At a private fast at Samuel Sewall's. Mr. Eliot 
prayed ; Mr. Willard preached. 

July 23. Date of Counter-Declaration of Mr. Eliot and others 
"To the Honoured General Court now sitting at Boston". 

July 30. "Mr. Eliot riding home his Horse stumbled and 
threw him, by which means his collar-Bone is broken near his 
shoulder which puts him in great pain" 

1686. 

Jan. 21. Signs, as Pastor, a lease for 500 years in regard to 
the school. It was afterwards cancelled. 

Feb. 16. "Mr. Eliot at meeting on Lecture day". 

March 11. "Mr. Eliot the Father, speaks to Samuel Sewall 
that he would go with him back to the Governour and speak that 
the Meeting might be held in our Meeting-House, the South, 
for fear of the worst." James Morgan, a criminal, was to be 
present, and to be made the subject of a discourse. A great 
crowd was expected, and it was feared the gallery might 
fall, or other trouble might arise from the presence of the 
multitude. 

Aug. 29, 1686. "in the third month of our overthrow". 
This language refers to changes that had been made by the 
English government in regard to the American colonies. 

The second edition of the Bible has been printed and dis- 
tributed. The translation of the "Practice of Piety is also 
finished". He asks for a new edition of "the Primer and 
Catechism". "I am old, ready to be gone, and desire to leave 
as many books as I can". 

Aug. 29. Visited by John Dunton, a famous London book- 
seller. 

Date of a letter to the Hon. Robert Boyle. 

Nov. 16. Samuel Sewall goes to Roxbury Lecture and hears 
Mr. Eliot pray and preach. 

Nov. 18. "Jn° Neponet, alias Nemesit, executed. Mr. Eliot 
hopes well of him". 

"The Practice of Piety is finished and beginneth to be 
bound up" 

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248 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

1687. 

March 22. "Mrs. Eliot of Roxbury dies". 

March 28. Samuel Sewall "went to Mrs. Eliot's funeral 
which was a very great one. No scarfs". 

"In ys yeare my ancient dearly beloved wife died. I was 
sick to death, but the Lord was pleased to delay me, & keep me 
in my service wh was but poor and weak." 

Rev. John Danforth wrote a poem "on the death of Mrs. 
Anne Eliot, the virtuous consort of Rev. John Eliot, first minister 
of Roxbury". 

July 11. Samuel Sewall with his wife and others "ride to 
Roxbury, visit Mr. Dudley and Mr. Eliot, the Father, who 
blesses them". 

Aug. 25. Samuel Sewall visits Mr. Benjamin Eliot. With 
his father and John Eliot, they sing. Mr. Benjamin's mind 
evidently impaired. 

Oct. 15. "Mr. Bowles brings word to Town of the death of 
Mr. Benjamin Eliot this morning. 

Oct. 16. Funeral of Mr. Benjamin Eliot. Many were there, 
some of whom came at noon to hear Mr. Joseph Eliot preach. 

Oct. 18. Mr. Joseph Eliot preached at the Roxbury Lecture: 
"said the King was turned a Puritan, and he was ravished 
at it". 

M 8. "d 26. My son Benjamin was buryd". 

"Mr. Eliot formerly used to preach to them (the Indians) 
once every fortnight, but now he is weakened with Labour 
and Old Age, being in the eighty-fourth year of his age, and 
Preacheth not to the Indians oftner than once in two Months". 

A third edition of the Practice of Piety said to have been 
published. 

1688. 

July 7, 1688. In a letter of this date, he addresses Robt. 
Boyle as "Right Honorable, deep learned, abundantly charitable 
and constant nursing father" 

"I am drawing near home, and am glad of an opportunity to 
take my leave of your honor with all thankfulness". He 
requests that some money, which Mr. Boyle had sent him, may 
be disposed of as he recommends. He speaks of printing the 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 249 

translation into Indian of two small treatises, made by him 
many years since; but he must have Mr. Cotton's help in 
revising and preparing them for the press. The letter closes 
with the benediction that the Lord will prolong his days and fill 
him with all grace until he arrives "at fulness of glory". 

"And for ought I know, The Last of his ever setting Pen to 
Paper in this world" was in writing to the "Reverend and 
Beloved, Mr. Increase Mather". This letter is without date, 
but it was doubtless written in this year. 

In this year probably, John Leusden dedicates "The Book of 
Psalms with the new English translation," English and Hebrew, 
to John Eliot. 

Sept. 9. "Abigail, daughter of Andrew Watkins". "Last 
entry of Baptisms by Rev d J. Eliot", in Roxbury Church 
Records. 

Sept. 10. Date of a letter from John Cotton to Increase 
Mather, in which the former writes — "Some difficulty there 
was among the Commissioners many years agone about settling 
good old Mr. Eliot's salary, & once a lessening of it, he writing 
to the Corporation obtained a full establishing of his yearly 
revenue during life, fifty pounds. The good man is hastning to 
his journey's end & tells me sincerely he hath none to betrust 
the worke with by myselfe. 

Oct. 17. Mr. Nehemiah Walter ordained at Roxbury. Mr. 
Eliot ordained him, "Teaching Pastor," as he always ordained 
his Indians. Mr. Eliot with others laid on Hands. At dinner 
at Mr. Dudley's, Mr. Bradstreet sat at the upper end of the 
Table 

1689. 

July 10. Mr. Eliot "gave by deed about seventy five acres 
of land for the support of a school and schoolmaster at that 
end of Roxbury, commonly called Jamaica or Pond Plain, for 
teaching and instructing the children of that end of the town, 
and to no other uses, intent or purpose, under any color or pre- 
tences whatever" 

Nov. 9. Daniel Takawampbait ordained at Natick by Mr. 
Eliot. 

Shepard's "Sincere Convert", translated into the Indian 
Language, published. 



250 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

169O. 

March 1. "I visit Mr. Eliot, who embraces me heartily, and 
calls me Brother : I present him with Mr. Flavell's Book ; 
England's Duty (under present Gospel Liberty). Mr. Walter 
sits with me all the while". — From the Diary of Samuel Sewall 
who had recently returned from England. 

May 9. Samuel Sewall visited Mr. Eliot, as he went from 
New York to Boston. 

1690. May 21. "Mr. Eliot dies about one in the morning", 
"his last Breath smelt strong of Heaven, and was Articled into 
none but very gracious Notes ; one of the last whereof, was, 
Welcome Joy! and at last it went away calling upon the 
standers by, to, Pray, pray, pray! which was the Thing in 
which so vast a portion of it, had been before Employ'd" 

May 22. Mr. Walter mentions in his Lecture "Mr. Eliot's 
Death, Ambassadour, Chariots and Horsemen" (2 Kings 11). 

May 23. "Mr. Eliot's Funeral ; Governour, Dept. Governour, 
&c there. Bearers, Mr. Allin, Morton, Willard, Fiske, Hobart, 
Nehem, Thacher . . . Mr. Dummer of York there". 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 25 1 

2. EVENTS HAVING REFERENCE TO JOHN ELIOT 
SUBSEQUENT TO HIS DEATH AND BURIAL. 

1691. 

Sept. 14. Under this date, Samuel Sewall writes : — "Mr. 
Eliot believed the Americans to be of the Ten Tribes ; if so, 
he that shall come and will not tarry — here will be a very- 
beauteous Bride, and they will be extream happy who have been 
any way imployed in wooing Her for Christ". 

Mr. Walter tells Samuel Sewall of a small Paraphrase of Mr. 
Eliots upon Ezek. 37, written about half a year before his 
death. 

His Life, by Cotton Mather, published in Boston ; and also 
in London, by John Dunton. 

1693. 

"The Indian church at Natick (which was the first Indian 
church in America) is, since blessed Mr. Eliot's death, much 
diminished and dwindled away" 

1694. 
May 24. Joseph, son of "the Apostle," dies at Guilford, 
Conn. 

1698. 

July 12. Grindal Rawson and Samuel Dan forth thus report 
— At Natick we find a small church consisting of seven men and 
three women. Their pastor (ordained by that reverend and 
holy man of God, John Eliot, decased) is Daniel Takawampait, 
and is a person of good knowledge. Here are fifty-nine men 
and fifty one women, and seventy children under sixteen years 
of age. We find no schoolmaster here, and only one child that 
can read. 

1708. 

Feb. 9. "Mrs. Hanah Glover dies", (dau. of John Eliot). 
Feb. 11. She is buried in a Tomb in the new burying place. 

1710. 

9 r 11 th Date of a letter containing objections to printing a 
third edition of the Indian Bible. 



252 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

1714. 

June 22. Grant of land at Pookookuppog or Alum Ponds, 
now in the town of Sturbridge, Mass., to John Eliot, confirmed 
to his grandson, John Eliot, by the General Court. 

1716. 

Sept. 7. Daniel Takawampbait, the Indian preacher who suc- 
ceeded John Eliot in the Indian church at Natick, died. 

1718. 

Mr. Mayhew, who preaches at Natick, July 20, "says that 
Neesnuman preaches well, commends his prayers especially". 

1721. 

No records of the Indian church at Natick could be found by 
the Rev. Mr. Peabody, who was then the minister there. Its 
history could not then have exceeded sixty-five years. 

1724. 
Jan. 12. In an account of the funeral charges for the funeral 
of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Walter, minister at Roxbury — paid by 
the Town, there is an item of six shillings for "a box to put 
the bones of old Mr. Eliot and others in". 

1820. 
His life by Cotton Mather, much changed from the original, 
published in London. 

1822. 
His Life, by Martin Moore, published in Boston. A second 
edition of this was published in 1842. 

1828. 
His life (by John Wilson D.D.), published at Edinburgh. 

1829. 
His life, published by the American Sunday School Union, 
Philadelphia. Another edition, without date, subsequently 
published. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 253 

183I. 

Life of John Eliot in modern Greek, published at Malta. 

1836. 
Life of John Eliot, by the Rev. Convers Francis, published in 
Boston. The same was published in New York City in 1848. 

1846. 

Oct. 28. "Psalm C. To be sung at the tea party given in 
the town-hall at Natick, . . . for the purpose of raising means 
to purchase a copy of Eliot's Indian Bible, to be preserved in 
the archives of the town". 

Description of the leaflet. "No title page, heading only ; one 
page, folio. Extract from Eliots translation of the psalms into 
Indian metre, probably from the second edition of the bible, 
with the English version, and the tune". 

But few copies can be found. There is one in the Boston 
Athenaeum, and another in the library of the Massachusetts 
Historical Society. 

An Indian girl of sixteen years, the only lineal descendant 
known of the Indians once residing at Natick, was present at 
this meeting. 

1847. 

"The Life of John Eliot with an account of the early mis- 
sionary efforts among the Indians in New England, by Nehemiah 
Adams" published in Boston. 

Life of John Eliot in German by Johann Hartung Brauer in 
Altona, Germany. 

1849. 
Intermediate School on Adams Street, Dorchester, Mass., 
named "Eliot" after John Eliot. 

1850. 

Apr. 6. Meeting at Roxbury for the purpose of devising 
measures to obtain funds for erecting a monument to John 
Eliot. 

Dearborn's sketch of the life of the Apostle was published 
this year. 



254 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

A part of the Records of the First Church in Roxbury were 
printed in the "Lives of Heath, Bowles and Eliot" by John 
Wingate Thornton. Some, or all of them, had been previously 
printed in a Roxbury newspaper. 

They were again printed, (not all of them), with notes by 
Wm. B. Trask, in the New England Historical and Genealogical 
Register in 1879, 1880, and 1881. 

They were printed for the third time, with a few unimportant 
omissions, in "A Report of the Record Commissioners, contain- 
ing the Roxbury Land and Church Records", in 1881. 

1851. 
Oct. 8. At a celebration held at Natick, a supposed portrait 
of John Eliot, recently brought from England, was exhibited. 

1854- 
First Genealogy of the Eliot family, published. 

1857- 
"The Parish Tomb" in the burial ground, corner of Washing- 
ton and Eustis streets, in which are the remains of John Eliot, 
repaired. 

1865. 
"Dr. Trumbull caused to be printed a few copies (35) of his 
translation from Indian into English of the leaf of rules for 
holy living appended to the metrical psalms", in the Indian 
Bible. 

1868. 
"Brief Narrative of the Progress of the Gospel amongst the 
Indians in New-England", reprinted. 

1875- 
Sept. 15. Meeting of the descendants of John Eliot at the 
Point House, Guilford, Conn. 

1881. 
A granite watering trough was erected at Canton, Mass., by 
"The Canton Historical Society," with the inscription : — 
"Erected in memory of the labors of the Apostle Eliot among 
the Indians at Ponkapoag, 1650-1690" 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 255 

1889. 

June 29. Copy of the Indian Bible from the Library of 
Chancellor Hardwicke sold at auction in London for £580. 

A Memorial window exhibiting a full-size figure of John 
Eliot presenting the Gospel to the savages placed in the 
Memorial Hall of Harvard University. 

An excellent biography of John Eliot by Henry R. Tedder 
was printed in the Dictionary of National Biography, edited by 
Leslie Stephen. Vol. xvii. London. 

1890. 
"Brief Narrative of the Progress of the Gospel" printed as 
No. 3, Eighth Series, Old South Leaflets. 

1 891. 
Jan. 9. A letter written by Eliot dated Roxbury the 22 of 
the 6 — 1673 was sold at auction in Boston for $500. The last 
will of Mr. Henry Ding, written by Eliot, fetched $220. 

1894. 
A stained glass window in the church of St. John the 
Baptist ("our ancestor's church") Hertfordshire, England, 
"To the glory of God and in pious Remembrance of John 
Eliot", was dedicated with devout and imposing ceremony, 
the American Ambassador and others being present. 

1896. 

Oct. 25. Historical Discourse by the Rev. Ezra H. Byington 
of Newton, Mass., delivered in the Eliot church at that place, 
in commemoration of the first sermon to the Indians by the 
"Apostle" at Nonantum (now Newton) Oct. 28, 1646. 

In the evening, a union service was held in the Eliot church, 
the other churches being closed. Nearly 2,500 were present, 
and there were addresses by several ministers. 

Nov. 11. Memorial exercises at Newton, Mass., commemo- 
rative of the first preaching there to the Indians. 

1901. 
July 3. Second meeting of the descendants of John Eliot at 
South Natick, Mass., the day preceding the celebration of the 
250th anniversary of the settlement of that place by John Eliot 
and his Praying Indians. 



256 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

July 4. The weather was delightful ; the town beautifully 
decorated ; crowds of people were assembled ; numerous and 
interesting addresses were delivered, one by Geo. E. Eliot Jr., 
of Clinton, Conn. ; and a poem, composed by another descendant 
of the "Apostle," Mrs. Wilimena H. Eliot Emerson, of 
Detroit, Mich., was recited by the authoress. 

1902. 
The Eliot Prize (biennial), for Proficiency in Divinity and 
Hebrew at Jesus College, Cambridge University, England, 
established in memory of John Eliot, "Apostle to the Indians." 
formerly a member of Jesus College, by his descendants and 
others in the United States of America, awarded for the first 
time. 

1903. 
A panel framed in Sierra marble, representing "The Apostle 
Eliot Preaching to the Indians", placed in position in the 
rotunda of the Massachusetts State House, Boston, Mass. 

1904. 
A pumping station for supplying water to the Indian town of 
Tucson, Ariz., erected by Laura Eliot Cutter. [See picture of 
the stone shaft, with inscription, in this volume.] 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 257 

3. PUBLICATIONS OF JOHN 1 ELIOT, INCLUDING 
TRACTS. 

Roxbury Church Records. Largely, though not exclusively, 
the work of John Eliot. They are entitled : — "A recorde of 
such as adjoyned themselves vnto the fellowship of this Church 
of Christ at Roxborough : as also of such children as they had 
when they joyned, & of such as were borne vnto them vnder the 
holy Covenant of this Church, who are pperly the seede of this 
Church". 

In 1850, the principal part of them was published by J. 
Wingate Thornton in a Roxbury, Mass., newspaper. Fifty 
copies thereof were issued in book-form. In 1879-1881, they 
were printed with notes by Wra. B. Trask in the N. E. His- 
torical and Genealogical Register of Boston. . 

They were printed for the third time, and to a greater extent, 
in "A Report of the Record Commissioners containing the 
Roxbury land and church records". — "City Document. No. 
114". Boston: . . 1881. 

These records are not restricted to religious matters, but 
many secular events are recorded. 



"The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully translated into 
English Metre", generally known as the "Bay Psalm Book" — 
the first book printed in the Anglo-American colonies, 1640. 

As the Puritans were not satisfied with the version of the 
Psalms in use in their day, they authorized another translation, 
adhering more closely to the Hebrew original. To Richard 
Mather, Thomas Welde and John Eliot this duty was assigned. 
Their verses have been characterized as "hopelessly unpoetical". 
But, with some modifications, they were generally used in New 
England for more than a century, and they were extensively 
adopted in England and Scotland. Edition after edition, one 
writer says to the number of seventy, was published. Few, less 
than half a dozen copies of the first edition, can be found. 
There is one in the Lenox Library, New York City, and two 
copies in the Boston Public Library. Some years ago, a copy 



258 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

at auction in New York City fetched $1,200. An amount 
much larger would now be paid should a copy be offered for 
sale. 

The Indians sang from a translation into their language, and 
Cotton Mather says their singing was "most ravishing". 

About seventy-one copies were reprinted in New York City 
in 1862. Occasionally one of these is offered for sale. Price, 
from $30 upwards. 



Catechisms and Primers in the Mass. Indian language. The 
first was printed in 1653-4, of which there was a second 
impression in 1662. In 1687 an Indian primer was printed in 
Cambridge, Mass., as doubtless the preceding and succeeding 
editions were. "It seems that Mr. Eliot translated several 
catechisms into the Indian language". In 1669, "The Indian 
Primer ; or The way of training up of our Indian youth in the 
good knowledge of God, in the knowledge of the Scriptures 
and in an ability to Reade. Composed by J. E." 

Besides the elementary contents usual in primers, this con- 
tains the Lord's Prayer ; "the ancient creed", now known as 
the Apostles' Creed ; the Larger and Shorter Catechisms ; and 
other matter. The only copy is in the library of the University 
of Edinburgh. It was reprinted in 1877, and again in 1880. 
In the edition of 1880, a fac-simile of "The Indian Covenanting 
Confession" is prefixed — a broad-side, printed probably about 
1660, in two columns, one in Indian, and the other in English. 
Copies of these reprints are occasionally offered for sale. 

All the copies of 1653-4, of 1662, and probably of 1687, have 
disappeared. 

Sometime between 1663 and 1675, the Assembly's shorter 
catechism was printed, of which a copy does not remain. 

The six principles of religion by the Rev. William Perkins 
was translated into the Indian language, but it is not certain 
that it was printed. 



Indian Testaments and Bibles. 

In 1655, Genesis; in 1665, Matthew; in 1658, a few psalms 
in metre ; in 1663, the psalter or book of psalms ; in the same 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 259 

year, a "Complete translation of the metrical psalms (all the 
singing songs of David)" were separately printed, but there 
are no copies to attest the fact. 

In 1 66 1, the New Testament was printed. A copy was sent 
to King Charles II., as was the whole Bible when completed. 
Copies are accessible in the Lenox Library, New York City, and 
in the Boston Public Library. They have brought various 
prices, and the value of a perfect copy may be about $500. 

In 1663, the Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament, and 
the New ; all the singing songs of David ; and the leaf of 
Rules for holy living, sometimes called the Catechism, was issued. 
This is known as the first edition. The most valuable copy is 
that presented by the translator to Jesus College, Cambridge 
University, England. On the fly-sheet at the beginning, he 
wrote, apparently not without one or two slips and corrections 
in his Latinity : — 

Pro Collegio Jesu, 

"Accipias mater quod alumnus humillimus offert 
Filius, oro preces semper, habere tuas." 
Johannes Eliot. 

Which, translated freely in English may read, For Jesus Col- 
lege. As one of her humblest sons, he asks his Alma Mater to 
accept this gift which he offers, and he entreats that he may 
always have her prayers. John Eliot. 

A copy of this edition, sent to "Dame Mary Armyne," is 
said to have cost its present owner about $3,000. 

In 1680, a second edition of the New Testament was printed, 
and the Bible was completed in 1685. Copies of this are more 
numerous and less costly than those of the first edition. 

The largest collection of Indian Bibles and Testaments, 
embracing every variety, is in the Lenox Library, New York 
City. The whole number of copies of Indian Testaments and 
Bibles, at present known, exceeds one hundred and twenty-five. 
Many of these are more or less imperfect. 

Two copies of the Indian Bible are owned by descendants of 
John Eliot ; one, a valuable copy of the first edition, by Mrs. 
Laura Eliot Cutter of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; the other, which was 
owned and has the autograph of the Indian preacher who was 
the last to preach in the aboriginal tongue, by Ellsworth Eliot, 
M.D., New York City. 



260 descendants of john eliot. 

Translation of Other Works. 

The first edition of the translation of Richard Baxter's Call 
to the Unconverted was printed in 1664. No copy known. It 
was reprinted in 1688. Yale University has a copy of this 
edition, for which $135 was paid in 1879. 

There are two editions of Bishop Lewis Bayly's Practice of 
Piety, somewhat abridged, one in 1665, and one in 1685. A 
copy of the first edition was bought by Yale University for 
$205. 

The sincere convert by Thomas Shepard, "turned into Indian 
language" by John Eliot, "a little amended by Grindal Rawson," 
was printed in 1689. It was the last of Eliot's translations. 
Copies may be seen in the Lenox Library and in the library of 
Yale University. 

Other Publications. 

"A breife topographicall description of the Seuerall Townes 
in New England with the names of our magistrates and Min- 
isters". This article is not dated, but there is reason to believe 
that it was written in 1650. 

It is printed in "American Presbyterianism", pp. xxx-xxxv. 
appendix : also it has been printed separately under the editor- 
ship of Dr. Samuel A. Green. 

The Christian Commonwealth : or The Civil Policy of The 
Rising Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Written Before the Inter- 
ruption of the Government, by Mr. John Eliot, Teacher &c. 
at Roxbury in New-England. Probably, in 1659. 

Very few copies of this book can be found, as the General 
Court of Massachusetts ordered that all should be "cancelled 
and defaced". 

Reprinted in Massachusetts Historical Society's Collections. 
3d Series, vol. 9, p. 127 et seq. 

Communion of Churches: or, The Divine Management of 
Gospel-Churches by the Ordinance of Councils, Constituted in 
Order according to the Scriptures, . . . 1665. 

"The first privately-printed American book". Two copies 
known to exist, one in the Lenox Library, New York City. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 261 

"The Indian Grammar begun : or, An Essay to bring the 
Indian Language into rules, For the Help of such as desire to 
Learn the same, or the furtherance of the Gospel among them. 
By John Eliot". 

At the end of the grammar, Mr. Eliot writes : — "I have now 
finished what I shall do at present ; And in a word or two to 
satisfie the prudent Enquirer how I found out these new wayes 
of Grammar, which no other Learned Language (so farre as I 
know) useth ; I thus inform him: God first put into my heart 
a compassion over their poor Souls, and a desire to teach them 
to know Christ, and to bring them into his Kingdome. Then 
presently I found out (by God's wise providence) a pregnant 
witted young man, who had been a Servant in an English house, 
who pretty well understood our Language, better than he could 
speak it, and well understood his own Language, and hath a 
clear pronunciation : Him I made my Interpreter. By his help 
I translated the Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, and many 
Texts of Scripture ; also I compiled both Exhortations and 
Prayers by his help. I diligently marked the difference of 
their Grammar from ours : When I found the way of them, 
I would pursue a Word, a Noun, a Verb, through all variations 
I could think of. And thus I came at it. We must not sit 
still and look for Miracles : Up and be doing, and the Lord 
will be with thee. Prayer and Pains, through Faith in Christ 
Jesus, will do any thing". 

There is a copy in the Lenox Library, New York City. The 
book was reprinted in 1822 in the Collections of the Massa- 
chusetts Historical Society, vol. ix, with notes and observations 
by Dr. John Pickering : also by Peter S. DuPonceau : also by 
the editor. This reprint was issued separately, with small 
additions. 

It was again reprinted in the Collections of the Massachusetts 
Historical Society, vol. 9 (second edition). 

A brief narrative of the "Progress of the Gospel amongst the 
Indians of New England in the year 1670. Given in by the 
Reverend Mr. John Eliot, Minister of the Gospel there . . . 
London, 1671. 

Very rare. It was reprinted in Boston in 1868 ; and as 
one of the "Old South Leaflets", Second Series, 1890, No. 3. 
It is one of the "Eliot Tracts". 



262 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Indian Dialogues. In English, intended for the use of native 
Indian teachers and ministers "for their Instruction in that 
great service of Christ, in calling home their Country-men to 
the knowledge of God, and of themselves, and of Jesus Christ", 
1671. The only copy known is in the Lenox Library, New York 
City. 

The Logick Primer. In Indian. A part has an interlinear 
translation. "Some Logical Notions to initiate the Indians in 
the Knowledge of the Rule of Reason . . . especially for the 
Instruction of such as are Teachers among them. Composed 
by J. E. for the use of the Praying Indians . . . 1672". 

Only copy in the Library of the British Museum, London. 
A few photographic copies have been made. 

The Harmony of the Gospels . . . 1678. 

Copy in the Library of the Congregational Association, Bos- 
ton, Mass., and also in the Library of the Massachusetts His- 
torical Society. 

"A Brief Answer To a Small Book written by John Norcot 
against Infant-Baptisme". 

Only copy in the Lenox Library, New York City. 

"Dying Speeches of Several Indians, 168 — ,r . In the Lenox 
Library, New York City. A small tract. 

Printed (perhaps in full) in "The Sabbath at Home". Vol. 
2, p. 333 et seq. 

Printed (perhaps in full) in Turner's Remarkable Provi- 
dences. London 1687, pp. 92-4. 

Printed (perhaps in full) in "John Dunton's Letters from 
New England" pp. 233-241. 

Cotton Mather mentions "one of the little papers which he 
published for" children. 

In addition to the foregoing, there is a record of not less than 
fifty-nine letters, thirteen miscellaneous articles, and seventy 
petitions, and miscellaneous articles which cannot be easily 
enumerated. They are printed in books, historical collections, 
magazines, etc., etc. 



descendants of john eliot. 263 

Eliot Tracts. 

A series of narratives, eleven in number, issued in quarto 
shape, in which are related the efforts to Christianize the Indians. 
They contain numerous letters from John Eliot. They have 
been much sought after by collectors. At present, it would be 
wellnigh impossible to obtain all at any price. There is a com- 
plete set in the Lenox Library, New York City. 

1. New England's First Fruits in respect ... of the Indians. 

2. The Day-Breaking if not the Sun-Rising of the Gospel with the 
Indians in New England. 

3. The Clear Sun-shine of the Gospel breaking forth upon the Indians 
of New England. 

4. The Glorious Progress of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New 
England 

5. The Light appearing ... or A further Discovery of the present 
state of the Indians. 

6. Strength out of Weakness Or a Glorious Manifestation Of the 
further Progresse of the Gospel among the Indians in New England. 

7. Tears of Repentance Or a further Narrative of the Progress of the 
Gospel Amongst the Indians in New England 

8. A Late and further manifestation of the Gospel amongst the Indians 
in New England. 

9. A Further Accompt of the Progresse of the Gospel amongst the 
Indians in New England. 

10. A further Account of the progress of the Gospel Amongst the 
Indians in New England. 

n. A Brief Narrative of the Progress of the Gospel amongst the 
Indians in New England. 

The last is noticed under a previous heading, "Other 
Publications." 

All have been reprinted, excepting Xo. 10. by the Massachu- 
setts Historical Society, Joseph Sabin, and others. 



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264 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

4. LIVES OF JOHN' ELIOT. 

The Triumphs of the Reformed Religion in America. The 
Life of the Renowned John Eliot ; A Person justly famous in 
the Church of God, Not only, as an Eminent Christian, and 
an Excellent Minister, among the English, But also, as a 
Memorable Evangelist among the Indians, of New England ; 
. . . Written by Cotton Mather. . . . Boston . . . 1691. 

The second edition of this work, "carefully corrected," was 
printed in London for John Dunton in 1691. 

The third edition was also printed in London for John Dunton 
in 1694. 

"A new edition," some parts omitted, was printed in London 
in 1820. 

Memoirs of the Life and Character of Rev. John Eliot, 
Apostle to N. A. Indians. By Martin Moore, A.M., Pastor of 
the Church in Natick, Mass. . . . Boston . . . 1822. 

A second edition, "revised and corrected", was issued in 
1842. 

The Life of John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians ; including 
notices of the principal attempts to propagate Christianity in 
North America, during the seventeenth century . . . Edinburgh 
. . . 1828. 

The name of the author is not upon the title-page, but it was 
written by John Wilson, D.D., Bombay. 

This book, abridged, was published by the American Sunday 
School Union, Philadelphia, in 1829. 

The American Sunday School Union also published, without 
date, "The Good Indian Missionary", a small book of thirty- 
six pages. 

Life of John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians. By Convers 
Francis. Boston and London, 1836. 

Published subsequently (1848) from the same plates by 
Harper & Brothers, New York. 

It is Vol. v, First Series, Library of American Biography, 
conducted by Jared Sparks. 

A Life of John Eliot in modern Greek was published in the 
Isle of Malta in 1831. A copy is in the Lenox Library, New 
York, and another in the Boston Public Library. These are 
the only copies known. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 265 

In the library of the British Museum, London, there is a life 
of John Eliot, in connection with the Mayhews, in German, 
published in 1847. 

The Life of John Eliot: with an account of the early mis- 
sionary efforts among the Indians of New England. Bv 
Nehemiah Adams . . . Boston: 1847. 

This is Vol. iii in the library of the Fathers of New England. 

A sketch of the life of the Apostle Eliot preparatory to a 
subscription for erecting a monument to his memory. By Henry 
A. S. Dearborn. 1850. 

Life and labors of John Eliot, the Apostle among the Indian 
Nations of New England, together with an account of the Eliots 
in England. By Robert Caverly. 1880. 

The same book is printed under this title, "Lessons of law 
and life from John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indian Nations of 
New England". 

John Eliot and the Nazing Puritans of the 17th Century. A 
lecture delivered in Nazing Chapel, Essex, March 22, 1872. By 
J. S. Stevens of Cheshunt College. Published at Cheshunt, 
England, 1874. 

John Eliot. A sketch. Read at the dedication of the Eliot 
memorial window in Widford Church, Herts., May 21. 1894. 
By J. Traviss Lockwood, Rector of the Parish. 

Missionary labors of the Apostle Eliot. A Discourse deliv- 
ered Oct. 25, 1896, two hundred and fifty years from the time 
those labors were begun. By Rev. Daniel L. Furber, D.D., 
Pastor Emeritus of the First Church in Newton, Mass. 

John Eliot, the Puritan Missionary to the Indians. By Ezra 
Hoyt Byington, D.D., Newton, Massachusetts. 1897. 

All the foregoing Lives are printed separately as books or 
pamphlets. The following works contain lives of John Eliot, 
some of them lengthy and elaborate : 

Vol. xvii. Dictionary of National Biography. London. 

Vol. i. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. 

Pioneers and Founders, or Recent Workers in the Mission 
Field. By C. M. Yonge. 

Lives of Eminent Missionaries. By John Carne. 

Memorials of the Pilgrim Fathers. John Eliot and his friends 
of Nazing and Waltham Abbey. By W. Winters. 



266 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Eames' bibliographical notes on Eliot's Indian Bible and on 
his other translations and works in the Indian language of 
Massachusetts. 

Dillaway's history of the Grammar School in Roxbury. 

Drake's history of Roxbury. 

Ellis' history of Roxbury. 

Biographical Dictionary, containing a brief account of the 
first settlers and other eminent characters among the magistrates, 
ministers, literary and worthy men in New England. By John 
Eliot, D.D. 

Charles Wyllys Elliott's history of New England. 

Vol. i. Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit. 

Bacon's History of Natick. 

Protestant Missions, their rise and early progress. By A. C. 
Thompson. 

Discoverers and Pioneers of America. By H. F. Parker. 

History of the most important and interesting religious events. 
By J. W. Barber. 

History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America. By 
Samuel Wilberforce. 

Historical Sketch of the First Church in Roxbury. 

A Sketch of Missions ; or history of the principal attempts 
to propagate Christianity among the heathen. By Miron 
Winslow. 

Eliot Anniversary, 1646-1896. City of Newton, Memorial 
Exercises, Nov. II, 1896. 

Bigelow's history of the town of Natick. 

Nonantum and Natick. By Sarah S. Jacobs. This book is 
also printed with the title : The White Oak and its Neigbors. 

Cowley's Memories of the Indians and Pioneers of the region 
of Lowell. 

Early Bibles of America. By Rev. John Wright, D.D. 

Trumbull's Origin and Early Progress of Indian Missions 
in New England. 

In addition to the above, biographical sketches, without num- 
ber, have appeared in books, magazines, pamphlets, addresses, 
histories, historical collections, tracts, and sermons. It is 
doubtful whether any emigrant from the old world has had 
so many to sound his praises as the "Apostle to the Indians." 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 267 



5. EXTRACTS RELATING TO HANNAH MUMFORD. 

"His whole Conversation with her had that sweetness and that gravity 
and modesty beautifying of it that everyone called them Zachary and 
Elizabeth. — Cotton Mather's Life, page 51. 

This Wife of his youth lived with him until she became to him the 
staff of his Age ; and she left him not until three or four years before 
his own Departure to those Heavenly Regions, where they now together 
see Light. She was a Woman very Eminent, both for Holiness and 
Usefulness, and she excelled most of the Daughters that have done 
vertuously. Her Name was Ann, and Gracious was her Nature. God 
made her a Rich Blessing, not only to her Family, but also to her 
Neighbourhood; and when at last she dyed, I heard and saw her aged 
Husband, who else very rarely wept, yet now with Tears over the Coffin, 
before the good people, a vast confluence of which were come to her 
Funeral, say, "Here lies my dear, faithful, pious, prudent, prayerful 
Wife; I shall go to her, and she not return to me." My Reader will 
of his own accord excuse me, from bestowing any further Epitaphs upon 
that gracious woman. — Cotton Mather, 6 and 7. 

It was an extreme Satisfaction to him, that his Wife had attained to 
a considerable skill in Physick and Chirurgery, which enabled her to 
dispense many safe, good, and useful Medicines unto the Poor that had 
occasion for them; and some hundreds of sick & weak and maimed 
people owed praises to God, for the Benefit which therein they freely 
received of her. The good Gentleman, her Husband would still be 
casting Oyl into the Flame of that Charity, wherein she was of her 
own accord abundantly forward thus to be doing of good unto all; 
and he would urge her to be serviceable unto the worst Enemies that 
he had in the world. Never had any man fewer Enemies than he ! 
But once having delivered something in his Ministry, which displeased 
one of his Hearers, the man did passionately abuse him for it, and this 
both with Speeches and Writings that reviled him. Yet it happened 
not long after, that this man gave himself a very dangerous Wound. 
Mr Eliot immediately sends his Wife to cure him; who did accord- 
ingly. When the man was well he came to thank her; but she took 
no Rewards ; and this Good man made him stay and eat with him, 
taking no notice of all the Calumnies with which he had loaded him ; 
but by this Carriage he strangely mollified and conquered the Stomach 
of his Reviler. — C. M., pp. 38 and 39. 

The skill of our ancestress,- Hanna Mumford Eliot, in the healing art, 
is evident from her directions in regard to the treatment of "Rickitts". 
They were taken from a manuscript volume of Miss Esther Bernon 
Carpenter, deceased, of Wakefield, R. I., and they were originally copied 
from a manuscript volume belonging to John 2 , son of the "Apostle." 



268 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Take an oxe gall, a like quantity of fresh butter, mingle them, and 
boyle them together with wormwood, rue, featherfew of each a like 
quantity, as much as the sd leekquor will containe, over a gentle fire, 
for the space of three or four hours, straine it, and keepe it for yo'r 
use. With this anoynt the child all down the brest, and cross the short 
ribbs bathing well against the fire : this do every night for a month 
together, in the spring, as soon as the said herbs may be had, in the 
mean time frequently give the child water wherein a handful of cur- 
rants have been boyled. 

The son John 2 adds : — "This is my mother's probatim est, wch she 
hath cured many with, and it seldom faileth" 

No wonder that her body was the first to be admitted to the Tomb, 
built for the interment of the Roxbury Ministers, now called "The 
Parish Tomb" ; "for the great service she had done for the town". 

March 28, 1687. Judge Sewall writes in his Diary, "Went to Mrs. 
Eliots Funeral, which was a very great one" ; She d. March 22 nd . — Sezvall 
Papers, vol. 1, p. 171. 

"In y s year [1687] my ancient dearly beloved wife dyed. I was sick 
to death, but the Lord was pleased to delay me, & keep in my service w h 
was but pure [poor] and weak" 

It could not be said of him, That he sought great things for himself; 
but what estate he became owner of, was from the Blessing of God 
upon the Husbandry and Industry of some in his Family, rather than 
from any endeavours of his own. Once when there stood several Kine 
of his own before his door, his Wife, to try him, asked him, Whose 
they were? and she found that he knew nothing of them. He could 
not endure to plunge himself into secular Designs and Affairs, — C. M., 
PP- 3i, 32. 



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6. MEMORIALS OF THE APOSTLE. 

I. John Eliot Memorial Prize and Scholarship Fund. It 
seems peculiarly appropriate that an Eliot Prize Fund to encour- 
age the study of the Hebrew language should be offered in Jesus 
College, Cambridge, by the descendants of John Eliot when we 
consider these words of his, as reported by Cotton Mather : 

"Oh that the Lord would put it (says he) into the heart of some of 
his Religious and Learned Servants to take such pains about the Hebrew 
Language as to fit it for Universal Use ! Considering that above all 
other Languages spoken by the lips of Man it is most capable to be 
enlarged and fitted to express all things and notions that our human 
intellect is capable of in this mortal life; considering also that it is the 
Invention of God himself and what one is fitter to be the Universal 
Language than that which it pleased our Lord Jesus to make use of 
when he spake from Heaven unto Paul. — C. M. Life of Eliot, page 50. 

The Rev. Edward Otter, formerly Fellow, gave the dividend 
of one year's Fellowship which increased by the College forms 
a Divinity and Hebrew prize of about £18, open every two 
years to Bachelors of Jesus College, Cambridge, England. 

The Eliot Prize Fund, inaugurated by Ellsworth Eliot of 
New York and contributed to by a number of his descendants 
in the United States of America, was begun in 1898 and com- 
pleted in 1904. It is open for competition in alternate years 
with the other prize, its value and the conditions of examination 
being the same. 

The original circular is as follows : 

The John Eliot Memorial Prize and Scholarship Funds, Jesus College, 
Cambridge University, England. 

John Eliot, "The Apostle to the Indians," entered this College, March 
20, 1618, and proceeded to the degree of A. B. in 1622. 

In the will of his father, Bennet Eliot, made November 5, 1621 — 
recorded in the Commissary Court of London, Register for 1621-1626, 
Folio 85, B. ; and printed in "The Heraldic Journal, recording the 
Armorial Bearings and Genealogies of American Families, Vol. IV., 
Boston, 1868," pp. 182-186 — is : "And first I give and bequeath all the 
rents and profitts of all my coppy and customary lands and Tenements 
w th theire appertenncs lyeinge and beinge in the sevall p'ishes of Ware, 
Widford, Hunsdon and Estweeke in the County of Hartford unto my 
Trusty and welbeloved friends William Curtis my sonne in lawe, Nicolas 



270 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Camp the younger and John Keyes all of the sayde parishe of Nasinge 
for the space of eight yeares from the time of my decease quarterly to 
pay unto my sonne John Elliott the some of eight pounds a yeare of 
lawfull money of England for and towards the maintenance in the 
nniv'sity of Cambridge where he is a Scholler." 

That John Eliot had a most tender regard for his Alma Mater is 
evident from the fact that he presented to her a copy of the first 
edition of his Indian Bible, now the most valuable in existence. (See 
page 259 for the dedication as he wrote it.) 

It seems eminently proper that there should be a perpetual Memorial 
of "The Apostle to the Indians" in this venerable Institution of learning, 
where were probably laid, in a large degree, during a residence of several 
years, the foundations of his learning and piety. 

I. It is proposed to establish, at Jesus College, Cambridge University, 
England, a "John Eliot Memorial Prize Fund" of £250, the interest upon 
which shall be used to encourage superior knowledge of the Hebrew 
language, for which "The Apostle to the Indians" had great reverence. 

II. It is also proposed to establish in the same College a "John Eliot 
Memorial Scholarship Fund," the interest upon which, when sufficient, 
shall be used for a superior scholar in all the studies leading to the 
degree of A. B. 

III. The Master and Fellows of Jesus College shall establish such rules 
and regulations as they think necessary and desirable for the proper 
management of these Funds, and for the award of the Prize and 
Scholarship. 

IV. In electing a John Eliot Scholar, preference shall be given, cateris 
paribus, to a native of the County of Hertford (in which John Eliot 
was baptized at Widford) ; or of Essex (in which his family lived a 
number of years at Nazeing) ; or of one of the six States of New 
England (where his active life was spent). 

The Master and Fellows of Jesus College are prepared to allow the 
name of John Eliot, of whom they are justly proud, to be perpetuated in 
this manner. 

Contributions may be sent to the Rev. James De Normandie, D.D., 
Roxbury, Mass., the present successor of John Eliot in the first Church 
there ; to Frederic B Elliott, President of the Hudson River Bank, 
Columbus Avenue, New York, N. Y. ; to Ellsworth Eliot, M.D., 48 West 
36th Street, New York, N. Y. ; to the Rev. John Travis Lockwood, 
Widford Rectory, Ware, Hertfordshire, England; and to the Rev. 
F. J. Foakes-Jackson, Jesus College, Cambridge University, England. 

48 West 36th Street, New York, N. Y. 
October 17, 1898. 

2. In Canton, Mass., there is a granite Watering Trough, high 
enongh for horses to drink from unchecked, with this inscrip- 
tion : — "Erected in memory of the labors of the Apostle Eliot 
among the Indians at Ponkapoag, 1650-1690". 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 27 I 

3. The Parish Tomb, in the burial ground, corner of Wash- 
ington and Eustis Streets, Roxbury, Mass., is about three feet 
high. Upon its walls of blocks of sandstone rest a white 
marble slab, inscribed with the names of the ministers of the 
first church from John Eliot, who died in 1690, to Eliphalet 
Porter, who died in 1833. 

4. The Eliot Memorial Terrace at Newton, Mass., has this 
inscription : — Here at Nonantum, October 28, 1646, in Waban's 
wigwam, near this spot, John Eliot began to preach the Gospel 
to the Indians. Here was founded the first Christian ■ com- 
munity of Indians within the English Colonies. 

The dates 1646 and 1879 (the year of erection) and the 
names, Heath, Shepard, Gookin and Waban, who are supposed 
to have been at the meeting, are upon the terrace. 

5. There is also at Newton an "Eliot Memorial Fund," the 
interest upon which is used to stimulate the pupils in the public 
schools of Newton to study American history, especially the 
early history of Massachusetts. 

6. At South Natick, Mass., there is a monument of New 
Jersey freestone, obelisk in form and about fifteen feet high, 
on the site of the Indian burial ground. On one of its sides is 
the inscription 

John Eliot 

Apostle 

to the Indians 

Born 1604 
Died 20 May 

1690. > 

On another side is an open Bible, carved, and on one of its 
pages is 

Up Biblum God 
1663 

7. Four tablets are affixed to the Congregational House, 
Boston, Mass. One of these, signifying philanthropy, is a 
representation of John Eliot preaching to the Indians. 

8. The Chancel window in the Church of St. John Baptist, 
Widford, Hertfordshire, England, is a Memorial to John Eliot, 
the inscription being: — To the Glory of God, and in pious 
memory of John Eliot, A.B. Cantab, called "The Apostle to 
the Indians," who was baptized in this Parish, Aug. 5, 1604: 



272 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Emigrated to New England, 1631 : died in Roxbury, Massa- 
chusetts, May 21, 1690. The righteous shall be in everlasting 
remembrance. Erected by his descendants 1894. 

The following circular was the beginning of this admirable 
memorial : 

To the descendants of John Eliot, "Apostle to the Indians." 

The early years of our ancestors were passed in Widford, County 
of Hertford ; in Nazeing, County of Essex ; at Little Baddow in the 
same county, and at Jesus College, Cambridge University. 

In the Parish Register of the Church of St. John Baptist at Widford, 
his baptism is thus recorded: John Elliott the sonne of Bennett Elliott 
was baptized the fyfte daye of Auguste in the yeare of o r Lord God, 1604. 

The baptism of his sister Sarah in 1599, his brother Phillip in 1602, 
and his brother Jacob in 1606 are also recorded in this Parish Register. 

Among the marriages is this : Bennett Eliot and Letteye Aggar were 
married the 30 th of October, 1598. 

Subsequently to 1606 and prior to 1610 the family doubtless removed 
to Nazeing, as in the Parish Register of the Church of All Saints in 
that Parish are recorded the baptisms of Lydia in 1610, of Francis in 
1615, and of Mary in 1620. The Register also shows that in the church- 
yard there are the graves, unmarked and unknown, of Letteye Eliot, 
who died in 1620, and Bennet Eliot, who died in 1621 — the father and 
mother of our apostolic ancestor. 

In the library of Jesus College, Cambridge University, is a copy of 
the Indian Bible presented by John Eliot, as his inscription on the 
fly-sheet shows. This priceless volume has been but recently discovered. 

Widford is about twenty-five miles north from London, and four 
and one-half miles east from Ware. It contains about 500 inhabitants, 
and probably presents about the same appearance as when our ancestor 
was born there. The Church of St. John Baptist is an ancient structure, 
built, no one can tell when and how. Parts of it are probably about 
800 years old, dating from the days of the Normans. Venerable in 
appearance, it looks as if it had stood for ages and would continue for 
centuries undilapidated. Archbishop Richard Whately and our ancestor, 
as well, were baptized at the stately font which stands just within the 
entrance of the church. Charles Lamb was a frequent worshipper there, 
and his beautiful verses, in which he refers to the grave of his grand- 
mother in its churchyard as 

"On the green hill-top 
Hard by the house of prayer, a modest roof," 

have brought, and will continue to bring, many pilgrims to this delight- 
ful locality. The tower of the church, built at a later date than the 
main building, but still not far from 500 years old, contains a peal of 
six bells of exceptional sweetness and purity. Some of them are of great 
antiquity, to which John Eliot must have listened. Their melodious 
ringing on a clear Sunday morning once heard can never be forgotten. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 273 

Through the kindness of the Rector, the Rev. John Traviss Lockwood, 
arrangements have been made to erect a stained-glass window to the 
memory of our ancestor. Mr. Lockwood has kindly consented that the 
chancel window, the most desirable one in the church, may be used for 
this purpose. Messrs. Burlinson & Grylls, 23 Newman Street, London, 
are preparing a design, a copy of which will soon be received. It will 
be an appropriate and beautiful memorial. The Rector of the church 
is thoroughly acquainted with this kind of work, and will give it his 
unremitting attention. The inscription will be : To the Glory of God 
and in Pious Remembrance of John Eliot, A.B., Cantab.,* called "The 
Apostle to the Indians," who was Baptized in this Church, Aug. 5, 
1604: Emigrated to New England A.D. 1631 ; and Died in Roxbury, 
Massachusetts, May 21, 1690. This window was erected by his descend- 
ants A.D. 1893 (or 1894). "The Righteous shall be in Everlasting 
Remembrance." 

The object of this circular is to ask contributions of $1 and upwards 
from every one who claims descent from John Eliot, and from those 
who have married descendants. There are a few who will pay the 
entire amount, if necessary. As some are unable, and others may be 
indifferent, large contributions must be made by others to meet the 
expenses, which will be about $1,000. It is suggested that contributions 
be made, by those who are able and willing, in the names of deceased 
members of the family, or in behalf of those too poor to contribute, 
so as to make the number of contributors, directly or indirectly, as 
numerous as possible. 

Contributions sent to E. Eliot, 48 West 36th Street, New York, N. Y., 
will be promptly acknowledged. 

It will give me pleasure to show a large number of maps and photo- 
graphs of churches and places identified with the life of John Eliot 
in England to any who may desire to see them. 

When the work shall have been finished there will be a dedicatory 
service. This may take place early next spring. Then, or at any other 
time, descendants of John Eliot will have a cordial welcome at the 
church, rectory, and village of Widford, in Hertfordshire, England. 

Ellsworth Eliot. 
48 West 36TH Street, New York, N. Y. 
September 25, 1893. 

9. A Memorial Window, made by the Tiffany Glass Company, 
New York City, from a design by F. D. Millet, was placed in 
Memorial Hall, Harvard College, in 1889. It is described as 
"a well designed and richly colored picture of Eliot presenting 
the Gospel to the Indians". 



* Cantab., in the inscription, is the usual abbreviation of Cantabrigia, 
the Latin of Cambridge. 



274 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

10. Memorial to John Eliot at Tucson, Arizona, by Laura 
Eliot Cutter. [See illustration in this volume.] 

"The Pumping Plant is the property of the Indian Training School at 
Tucson, Arizona. It is the only means of irrigating our forty-five acre 
ranch, which is situated one mile west of the School. Our School is 
for the Pima and Papago Indians and these tribes alone are benefited 
by this plant. Its use so far has been confined entirely to the School 
lands. 

Water rights, which we had from the river ditch, were partly taken 
away from us some years ago. Last year we would have had no crop 
had it not been for this pump plant, for all the water was taken away 
from us. The want of rains in this climate makes irrigation an absolute 
necessity for vegetation. The inscription for the plant is cut in native 
marble, taken from a mountain about twenty miles southwest of Tucson. 
The stone stands outside of the Well building at the southeast corner." 

[A portion of a letter written by the Superintendent of the Training 
School.] 

Churches, halls, public squares, streets, various institutions, 
and other Memorials without number bear the name of Eliot in 
recognition of his praiseworthy character. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 275 

7. FAMILY RELICS. 

THIS LIST MIGHT BE LARGELY EXTENDED. 

Chair belonging to the Unitarian Church, Dorchester, Mass. 
A picture of this chair is in the New England Magazine, vol. xv, 
P- 273. 

Chair belonging to ex-Mayor Henry E. Cobb, Newton, Mass., 
Pictures of both of these chairs are in the "Eliot Anniversary 
1646-1896. City of Newton", Mass. 

Court cupboard, or sideboard, belonging to Edward Eliot, 
Guilford, coming from Joseph Eliot. [See picture in this book.] 

Autographs and other handwriting of John 1 , Joseph 2 , Jared 3 
and AbiaP Eliot, and of many of their descendants, owned by 
Ellsworth Eliot, New York City. [A few of these are repro- 
duced in this volume.] 

Indian Bible, owned by Mrs. Laura Eliot Cutter, Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 

Indian Bible, owned by Ellsworth Eliot, New York City. 

Cotton Mather's Life of John Eliot, once owned by his son, 
Joseph 2 Eliot, Guilford, Conn., now owned by Ellsworth Eliot. 

Henry Smith's Sermons, dated 1592. This book has the 
autograph of Benjamin Eliot, son of John 1 , by whom it may 
have been brought from England. Owned by Ellsworth Eliot, 
New York City. 

Portraits of Jared 3 Eliot and wife, owned by George E. Eliot, 
Clinton, Conn. [See Jared Eliot's portrait in this volume.] 

There is an excellent engraving of the portrait of Jared Eliot 
in the Century Magazine, New York City, vol. xxvii, New 
Series, p. 437. 

Gold medal awarded to Jared 3 Eliot, for producing malleable 
iron from the American black sand. Owned by Charles G. 
Eliot, Goshen, N. Y. For a picture of this medal, see the 
Century Magazine, New York City, vol. xxvii, p. 448. 

Photographic copy of the Logick Primer from the original 
in the Library of the British Museum, London. Owned by 
Ellsworth Eliot, New York City. 

Whitney Elliott of North Haven, Conn., has the first dollar 
Dr. Harvey Eliot (No. 119) took in his practice — "a Spanish 
mill dollar". 



276 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Also the gig he used in practice ; it is still in running order. 

Also his picture, in a gold case painted on ivory. 

Deacon William Maltby of Northford, Conn., has a silver 
porringer said to belong to Joseph and Mary Wyllys Eliot. It 
descended through the Hart family. 

Alexander Lucius Elliott of Delaware Co., O., has a watch 
belonging to Dr. Harvey Eliot (119). 

John A. Stanton of Clinton owns the following : 

Two Kensington embroideries by Amelia Z. Eliot and Mary 
L. Eliot, nieces of Nancy Eliot, sister of Jared Eliot 3d. 

A round top mahogany table of the eighteenth century, with 
spider legs, which belonged to Elizabeth Lord of Lyme, Conn., 
who married Jared Eliot 2d in 1760, and was his second wife. 

Two fiddle-back, rush-seated parlor chairs, with Spanish 
feet. 

A small globular china teapot, finely decorated and perfect. 

Silver pepper box and spoons marked J. E. 

A very ancient engraving, "Duchess of Marlborough," from 
painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bart., and another entitled 
"Study of Geography". 

A light drab colored gig body, with Eliot coat-of-arms, painted 
on back, and elephant's heads on side panels. In this carriage 
Jared Eliot 2d and Elizabeth Walker made their wedding jour- 
ney from Boston to Killingworth in May, 1757. 

Full life-size portraits of Jared Eliot 3d and his wife, Clarissa 
Lewis, upon one canvas. 

A fine Kensington embroidery, "Persian Lady worshipping 
the sun", by Nancy Eliot, sister of Jared Eliot 3d. 



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Louis I. King of France - Lady [udith of Bavaria 
Charles II. Kim of France Lad) Richildis (ad wife) 

Prim ess Judith of France = Baldwin 1. Count Of Flanders 
Baldwin II. Count of Flanders 



ROYAL ANCESTRY OF MARY WYLLYS, WIFE OF REV. JOSEPH ELIOT. 



Richard de Claire ; John de Otiincy ; Roger Bigod and son 
Hugh Bigod; John FitzRobert ; Godfrey de Say; Robert de 
Vere ; Henry de Bohun ; and Guilbert de Claire were all Sr.re- 
Ues for Magna Charts and all were ancestors of Mabel Harla- 
kenden and Mary \V\ llys. 



. .it through the. Saxon Kings to Henr 
descent from Edward I. through Edward 11. -111., etc. 
Line . and Line j reunite in Lady Catherine Fienes. 
[.iae3ShowsdeSCentofBaldwu1II.fr. 



Alfred the Great, King of Eng'. = Alswitba (or Elswitha) 

Etl.elwida= Baldwin II. Count of Flanders 
Arnolph, Conn, of Flanders = Lady All* of Vermandois 
Baldwin III. Count of Flanders = Lady Matilda of Saxony 
Arnolph II. Count of Flanders = Lady Susanna d'Inree of Italy 
Baldwin IV. Count of Flanders = Lady Agiva of Luxembourg - 

Baldwin V. Count of Flande 



L,irie 1. 



Hugh Capet elected King of France r: Ladj \,!,l,,,( A.,. .it, in. 



ders = Lady Adela ; d. of Robert the Pious of Fran, e = Ladj il tm I 

B Lad] Matilda of Flanders = William the Conqueror, King of Eng", Duke of Normandy 

•I Henry I., King of Eng''. = Matilda, d. of Malcolm III. of Scotland - Margaret Princess of Eng J 

M Hid, Empress of Germany = Geoffroi, fount of Anjou 
1. Henry II, King of Eng*. - Eleanor, Duchess of Aqultaine 
.2 John, King of Eng 1 . = Lady Isabel de Tailblei 

13 Henry III. of Eng J . = Lady Eleanor of Provence 

14 Edward I. of Eng' 1 . = Eleanor, d. of Ferdinand III. of Castile 

15 Princess Joan D'Acre = m*. I", Gilbert de Cla.e, Earl of Hertford and Glou. 

16 Lady Margaret de Clare = m d . 2', Hugh, 2'' Baron d'Audley and created 1337 Earl of Gloucester 

17 Lady Margaret d'Audley = Sir Ralph Stafford, 2' Baron Stafford, created 1351 Earl of Stafford (of Roy;, 
is Lady Margaret deStafford = Sir Ralph de Neville, K.G., 1 reati d [397 Earl of Westmoreland (of R. D.i 
1 , Lady Phillipa de Neville = Thomas d'Acre of Gillisland, (."' Baron de Acre, died 1457 

20 Thomas D'Acre of Gillisland = Elizabeth, d. of Sir Richard Bowet = Amy D'Uff'ord (of R. D.) 

21 Lady loan D'Acre, heiress = m' 1 ., ante 1457. Sir Richard Fienes (of R. D.I, Constable Tower of Londo 

22 Sir lohn Fienes (eldest son) = m'. Lady Alice, d. of Henry Baron Fit/hugl. of Ravensworth, d. 147=, a 
Sit Thomas Fiet.es. heir to Gd. father, Sir Richard Fienes ; Baron DA, re of (he South, etc. = Annie. .1 

24 Lady Catherine Fienes, sister of Thomas, heir, d. v.p. ante 1531. father of Thomas, who succeeded to 

= She nv 1 . Richard Londenoys of Briade, Sussex, an. I had 
es Mary Londenoys, heiress = Thomas Harlakenden of Worthon. Kenr ; will dated 1502, probated 1564 
20 Roger Harlakenden, of Earle's Colne, Essex, etc., 3" son (.535-1003) - m". .", Elizabeth, d. of Thorn,. 
27 Richard Harlakenden (heir of Earle's Colne) = Margaret (or Mary), ,1. of Edward Hobart (or Hubbarl: 
.,. m ,,„ i M.irL.k. inden, b. Earle's Colne, 27 Sept., 1614, came to New Eng'. with bro. Roger, ru 35 

= m''. f 1 (his second wife). Col. John II tyn. [636, I.. Coddicot, Hertfordshire 
Gov. Ct. Colony i(>39 
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Ethelwuli = Osburga 

Alfred the Great, King of Eng d = Alswitha 

F.dward the Elder, King of Eng J = Edgiva. <l. of Slgelllm, Sax,,., Earl 

Edmund I. King of Eng' 1 - Elgiva, gr.il. of Ufred the Great 

Edgar the Peaceful, King of Eng 1 = Elfreda, d of : trl ol Dev, 

Ethelred, King of Eug a = Elgifa, d. of Earl Thorad 

Edmund Ironsides = Algitha of Denmark 

Edward the Exile, prince of En K ' Ladj Igatha ol Germanj 

Margaret, 1 is ol Eng d = Malcolm III. King ol Scotland 

Matilda, princess of Scotland = 1 I, ,m I I ,,, ol I,, 

Maud, Empress of Germany = Geoffroi, Cout \, tjou P ,,, 

Henry II.,, 1 England Eleanor of Vquitaine 

John. King of Eng' 1 = Lady Isabel] de Taill.fc, 

Henry III. of Eng' = Ladj Eli .,,... ol P 

Edward I. of Eng' 1 = Princess Eleanor of Castile 

Edward II. King of Eng* =q Princess Isabell. I , Philip IV. ol France 

Edward III. King of Eng* i Lady Phillip. 1 of Hainault 

Thomas, Duke of Gloucester (7th son) Ladj Vlianon di Bohun 

L, id)- Ann. Plantagenel = William de Bouchier, Earl of Eu 

Sit I'.hii de Bouchier = Ladj Margaret de Berners 

Ladj \.ni. ,1, Bouchiei : Sit I hom 1 1 R, D. 1 dward 1. of 

i "i. , atharine Fienes = Richard 1 lenoys ol Briade, Susses 

Mary Londi tioj 1 I tiomas 11 trlalcenden of Worthon, Kenl 

Roger Harlakenden ol Kenardii Elizi It Hard u I ,,1, 

Richard Harlakenden, heir to Earl's Colne Mat Marj Mubbartt 

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DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 277 



9. THE SURNAME ELIOT, AND ITS CORRECT SPELLING. 

Much has been written in regard to the origin of surnames in 
modern history, that of Eliot included. They were introduced 
to designate occupation, estate, place of residence, or some par- 
ticular thing or event related to the person. One writer says 
Eliot is of doubtful origin. Another says it signifies the son 
of Elias. It has abounded in the north of England and the 
Scottish border from an early date. It was first brought to the 
new world by John Eliot and his brother Jacob. By the Apostle 
it was spelled Eliot, and it was so continued for three genera- 
tions. The number of changes that have been made in later 
generations is surprising. 

The following after-dinner lines, composed by Mrs. W. H. 
Eliot Emerson, were read at the family dinner at South Natick, 
and is here printed by request : 



The Name of Eliot. 

I have a little tale to tell — 
Perhaps 'tis new to you as well ; 
It dates as far back as man's woes 
When the tower of Babel rose ! 

It seems the letters got so mixed — 
After that high brick wall was fixed, — 
They joined themselves in pure affright 
For fear they'd lose themselves outright. 

Three vowels, a liquid and a t, 
Clung together for company; 
The i was thin, the o was round, 
E had a good strong base 'twas found, 

So it took the lead and liquid L 
Followed the E and loved it well — 
While sharp thin I and fat round O 
Were followed by T, who was shy and slow. 

And many have borne this curious name 
Since Babel first was known to fame, 
And some have tinkered, and many have tried 
To make it different — more long — or wide. 



278 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

They have doubled the 1 
"To make it swell," 
They have added a t 
"To be odd, you see." 
Some have put in a "y" 
In the place of i — 
But still it spells 
"E-1-i-o-t." 

Now, kinsmen and kinswomen here to-day, 
I've an axe to grind and a chip to lay. 
Why not scratch out one / and banish one t 
And all spell our name E-1-i-o-t? 
And, if two good reasons I must show, 
First, our great Eliot spelt it so, 
And next — the anagram is toile, 
The greatest, grandest privilege of man. 
Whether to do great deeds or till the soil; 
Therefore I say, adopt the ancient plan. 

E-1-i-o-t— 

T-o-i-l-e. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 279 



10. PLACES IN ENGLAND 

Known to be Closely Associated with the Memory of 
John Eliot. 

I. Widford in Hertfordshire, about twenty-six miles north by 
east from London. It contains about 500 inhabitants. Here 
in the Parish Register is the record of the marriage of his father 
and mother ; and of the baptisms of their children, Sarah, Philip, 
John, and Jacob ; and here is the Memorial window to John. 

II. Nazeing in Essex, about nineteen miles north by east from 
London. It contains about 1,800 inhabitants. Here in the 
Parish Register is the record of the baptisms of the younger 
children, Lydia, Francis and Mary ; and here is the record of the 
burial of the father and mother. 

III. Jesus College, Cambridge University. Here in the 
Library of the College is a copy of the first edition of the Indian 
Bible, with a presentation inscription in Latin by the translator — 
the most valuable copy in existence. 

IV. Little Baddow in Essex, about thirty-five miles north- 
east from London. Here between 1622, the year of his gradu- 
ation from college, and 163 1, when he left England for America, 
he was for some time a teacher in the school of the Rev. Thomas 
Hooker — it is not known how long. 



18 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



11. TOWNS OF "PRAYING INDIANS". 

From the year 1651, when Natick was founded, to King 
Philip's war, 1675-78, towns for the Christian Indians, one after 
another, were established until they numbered sixteen. Seven 
of them were designated as old towns "because they were first 
settled in civil and religious order." In the "Nipmuck 
country," which was in that part of Massachusetts now occu- 
pied by towns in the middle and lower part of Worcester 
County, there were about nine new towns. In Gookin's His- 
torical Collections of the Indians in New England, these towns 
are called Natick, Pakemit or Punkapoag, Hassanamesitt, 
Okommakamesit, Wamesit, Nashobah, Magunkaquog, Man- 
chage, Chabanakongkomun, Maanexit, Quantisset, Wabquissit, 
Packacoog, Waeuntug, and two others, Weshakim and Quabaug, 
'.'which are coming to receive the gospel". 

These towns are supposed to have contained about eleven 
hundred "yielding obedience to the gospel". 

The results of Philip's war were most disastrous, nearly all, 
if not all, the new praying towns in the Nipmuck country having 
been annihilated. 

Four, of all the Indian towns, in 1684 were Natick, Ponkipog, 
Wamesit, and Chachaubunkkakowok. 

The spelling of the names differ in the writings of different 
authors. 

Natick is the only one which has become permanent. 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 281 

12. OTHER ELIOTS 

Among the Early Settlers in New England Besides the 
"Apostle" and His Three Brothers. 

I. John of Watertown, Mass., 1633. He probably 
removed to Stamford, Conn., in 1650. His wife, Margaret, 
died there Aug. 17, 1658. 

II. "William Eliot, sometimes of New Sarum" (Salis- 
bury), England, was drowned at Thachers Island, "about two 
miles east of the southeast point of Cape Ann", Mass., Aug. 15, 

1635- 

III. Edmund of Amesbury, Mass. Arrived about 1650. 

IV. Richard of New London, Conn., in 1662. (Transient.) 
V. Richard of Beverly, Mass., in 1664. 

VI. Joseph of New London, 1667. 
VII. Henry of Stonington, 1678. 
VIII. Robert of Casco, Scarborough, 1685 
IX. Thomas of Boston, Mass., 1686. 
X. Daniel of Sudbury or Marlborough, 1687. 
XL Andrew, from East Coker, Somersetshire, England, 
came to Beverly, Mass., between 1668 and 1670. He was one 
of the jury in the witch trials at Salem, for which he and the 
other jurymen asked forgiveness. 

The genealogy of this family by Walter Graeme Eliot was 
published in 1887. 

Many distinguished men, one of them Charles William Eliot, 
President of Harvard University, trace their ancestry to this 
emigrant. 

Levi and Oliver Elliott, brothers, who may have been descend- 
ants of some one of the preceding, came from Maine or Vermont 
to Cherry Flats, Tioga Co., Pa., where they lived and died, 
marrying and having a large family of male children. 

Mortimer F. Elliott, 26 Broadway, New York City, attorney 
for the Standard Oil Co., is of this line. 

A. M. Elliott, 935 North Calvert street, Baltimore, Md., writes 
that his stock came from the Carolinas — Wilmington being the 
chief centre. We do not know whether he has traced to an 
early settler. 



282 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

13. SERMON OF JOHN ELIOT, 
Reported by Cotton Mather. 

See pp. 21-24 of "The Life of the Renowned John Eliot . . . 
Written by Cotton Mather . . . Boston . . . 1691." 

Indeed I can not give a fuller Description of him than what was in 
a Paraphrase that I have heard himself to make upon that Scripture, 
our Conversation is in Heaven. I writt from him as he uttered it. 

"Behold, said he, the Ancient and Excellent Character of a true 
Christian; 'tis that which Peter calls Holiness in all manner of Con- 
versation ; you shall not find a Christian out of the way of Godly 
Conversation. For, first, a seventh part of our time is all Spent in 
Heaven, where we are duely zealous for and zealous on, the Sabbath 
of God. Besides, God has written on the Head of the Sabbath Remem- 
ber; which looks both Forwards and Backwards; and thus a good part 
of the week will be spent in Sabbatizing. Well, but for the rest of our 
Time ! why, we shall have that spent in Heaven, ere we have done. 
For, Secondly, we have many days for both Fasting and Thanksgiving, 
in our pilgrimage; and here are so many Sabbaths more. Moreover, 
Thirdly, we have our Lectures every week; and pious people, won't miss 
them, if they can help it. Furthermore, fourthly, We have our private 
Meetings wherein we pray, & sing, and Repeat Sermons, and confer 
together about the things of God ; and being now come thus far, we 
are in Heaven almost every day. But a little farther, Fifthly, we per- 
form Family-Duties every day; we have our morning and evening 
Sacrifices, wherein having read the Scriptures to our Families, we call 
upon the Name of God, and ever now and then carefully Catechise 
those that are under our Charge. Sixthly, we shall also have our daily 
Devotions in our Closets; wherein unto Supplication before the Lord, 
we shall add some serious Meditation upon his Word; a David will be 
at this work no less than thrice a day. Seventhly, We have likewise 
many scores of Ejaculations in a day ; and these we have, like Nehemiah, 
in whatever place we come into. Eighthly, We have our Occasional 
Thoughts, and our Occasional Talks, upon spiritual matters; and we 
have our Occasional Acts of Charity, wherein we do like the Inhabitants 
of Heaven every day. Ninthly, in our Callings, in our civil Callings, we 
keep up Heavenly Frames; we buy and sell and toyl, yea, we eat and 
drink, with some eye both to the Command and the Honour of God in 
all. Behold I have not now left an inch of time to be carnal; it is all 
Engrossed for Heaven. And yet, lest here should not be enough, Lastly, 
We have our spiritual Warfare. We are always Encountering the 
Enemies of our Souls, which continually raises our hearts unto our 
Helper and Leader in the Heavens. Let no man say, 'Tis impossible to 
live at this rate; for we have known some live thus; and others that 
have written of such a life, have but spun a Web out of their own 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 283 

blessed Experiences. New-England has Examples of this life; tho, 
alas, 'tis to be lamented, that the Distractions of the world, in too 
many professors do becloud the beauty of an Heavenly Conversation. 
In fine, our Employment lies in Heaven. In the morning, if we ask, 
Where am I to be to day? Our Souls must answer, In Heaven. In the 
evening, if we ask, Where have I been to day? Our Souls may answer, 
In Heaven. If thou art a Believer, thou art no stranger to Heaven 
while thou livest; and when thou dyest, Heaven will be no strange 
place to thee ; no, thou hast been there a thousand times before". 

Cotton Mather adds — : "In this language have I heard him express 
himself; and he did what he said; he was a Boniface as well as a 
Benedict ; and he was one of those 

Qui faciendo docent, quae facienda docent. 

It might be said of him, as that Writer characterises Origen, Quae- 
madmodum docuit, sic vixit, et quaemadmodum vixit, sic docuit." 



284 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



14. LETTER OF JOHN ELIOT TO OLIVER CROMWELL. 

"To His Excellency, the Lord General Cromwel ; Grace, Mercy, and 
Peace be Multiplied. 
Right Honorable, 

Envy itself can not deny that the Lord hath raised and 
improved You in an Eminent manner to overthrow Antichrist, and to 
accomplish, in part, the prophecies and Promises of the Churches 
Deliverance from that Bondage : In all which Service, the Lord hath 
not only kept Your Honor unsteined, but also caused the Lustre of 
those precious Graces of Humanity, Faith, Love of Truth, and Love 
to the Saints, &c. with which, through His Free Grace, He hath enriched 
You, to shine forth abundantly beyond all exception of any that are, 
or have been Adversaries to Your Proceedings. Now as the design of 
Christ in these daies is double, namely, First ; To overthrow Antichrist 
by the Wars of the Lamb; and Secondly, To raise up His own Kingdom 
in the room of all Earthly Powers which He doth cast down, and to 
bring all the World subject to be ruled in all things by the Word of 
His mouth. And as the Lord hath raised and improved You, to accom- 
plish (so far as this Work hath proceeded) the first part of His Design, 
so I trust that the Lord will yet further improve You, to set upon the 
accomplishment of the Second part of the design of Christ; not only 
by endeavoring to put Government into the hands of Saints, which the 
Lord hath made you eminently careful to do, but also by promoting 
Scripture Government and Laws, that so the Word of Christ might 
rule all. In which great Services unto the Name of Christ, I doubt 
not, but it will be some Comfort to Your heart to see the Kingdom of 
Christ rising up in these Western Parts of the World; and some con- 
firmation it will be, that the Lord's time is come to advance and spread 
His Blessed Kingdom, which shall (in His season) fill all the Earth: 
and some incouragement to your heart, to prosecute that part of the 
Design of Christ, namely, That Christ might Reign. Such Considera- 
tions, together with the Favorable Respect You have alwaies shewed to 
poor New-England, had imboldncd me to present unto Your Hand, 
these first Confessions of that Grace which the Lord hath bestowed upon 
these poor Natives, and to publish them under the protection of Your 
Name, begging earnestly the continuance of Your Prayers for the 
further proceeding of this gracious Work : And so Committing Your 
Honor to the Lord, and to the Word of His Grace, and all Your weighty 
affairs to His Heavenly Direction, I rest 

Your Honors to serve You, 

in the Service of Christ 
John Eliot." 
Tears of Repentance : 
London : 1653. 



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15. LETTERS OF JOSEPH ELIOT. 

To the Reverend his good friend M r . Increase Mather Teacher to the 
2 d . church in Boston, these. 

Reverend S r — I received before or in winter your letter and your 
books, for which I heartily thank you. In perusing your book of 
Answer of Prayers I found some things very considerable; but one 
thing I much wondered at, that whereas you give an account of prayers 
and answers as in the Masathuset, Plimouth, England, there is not one 
word referring to Connecticut, nor is it so much as mentioned in the 
whole discourse that I can remember. I suppose you wil say it was 
for want of intelligence, and so I believe it was not any design at 
concealment, but yet had it not been highly expedient to have sent into 
these parts, and have understood what trade of prayer was here driven 
by the Saints, before you had printed; for want of which easy duty 
I know not but yours may be amiss of some things whereby X* migh 
have been honored; yet I am afraid to be too busy or forward in 
managing such pleas as not being altogeither unacquainted with the 
deceitfulnesse of heart, which under pretence of X's honor we seek our 
own. It can not now be recalled; but I could heartily wish, that in 
things of publique and universal import there might be no precipitation 
used, but all things maturely weighed, and the best intelligence gained, 
lest the world have erudition instead of narratives. But I need not 
inlarg upon that matter. I hear you are under a sad visitation of the 
poxe. The Lord's anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched 
out still. We may even with trembling stand and wait to see what 
God wil doe with poor New England. For my own part I durst not 
but hope in the name of the Holy One of Israel. I perceive in your 
book concerning Church Children you have taken up D r . Owen's notion 
about baptisme. I think it would solve many difficulties if it could be 
set clear. I am perswaded the Doctor hath more to say about it than 
yet he hath spoken, being but as it were . . . and what he hath said, 
laying one thing with another, to the best of my apprehension, is not 
far from contradictory. I would be very glad if you or any body would 
stir him up to elucidate and elaborate his notions on that subject. I 
hope it would be of great use to the Church of God. I hear God hath 
made a great breach among you by taking away Mr. Sheapard. I know 
not whither he had any thing provided for the presse. I hope his 
friends will not be wanting to search, that so if there be, right may be 
done both to him and the world. There was a man telling of me within 
these few days that it was Strang to observe what a black run of things 
had followed the Colledge businesse in reference to the doctor. We 
have in these parts some fears of new trouble from the Indians, & how 
it is with you and at the eastward, I have not particularly heard. I 
would thank you if you would communicate to me not only your own 
but your European newes when it comes to hand. I shal not further 



286 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

inlarg at present but with dear remembrance to your self and yours, 
remain 

Yours in our Savior Joseph Eliot. 

Guil : 3 May. 78. 

Note by I. Mather. "Received May 18, 78, brought to me by M r Johns- 
ton who found it in the street". 

For the Reverend M r . Mather, Teacher to the 2 d . Church in Boston, 
these d lr . 

Guil : July 17, 78. 

Reverend S r , — I received your late letter safely delivered to me, and 
not dropped in the street as mine was. As to that first businesse my 
scope was to intimate that before such kind of treatises are put forth 
as contain aliquid commune, the affairs I mean, or concerns of a people, 
it is requisite that there should be such a collection of materials as may 
in some measure reach in the extent of the whole, without which both 
persons and things are liable to suffer injury; and as that was my scope 
so it is still my apprehension, according to which level I think both 
your discourse of prayer and of the late warre were put forth with too 
much precipitation, and that your book of the former troubles of 
the country is farre more elaborate and comprehensive; yet in all these 
I have not the least thought of disparaging the usefulnesse of the truths 
and ... so farre as they goe, but could have wished that the readers 
might have been advantaged with the rest, that by no great expense of 
pains might have been superadded haec oportet facere et ilia non omittere. 
I perceive you have come in the way of sundry pieces of the Virtuosi. 
I say per se they doe elaborate more and greater things than those you 
mention ; yet concerning longitude memory fails me, if I have not read 
something of that kind on foot these sundry years (?) I would earnestly 
entreat you, out of pity to a famished man, to send me such treatises 
historical or philosophical as you have by you, especially that concerning 
the designes of a French government in England. I shall carefully 
return you. And as a pledge of my care, at last I now send you your 
Hudson. I have kept it long, not so much for the sake of the book as 
for the learned annotations in the margine, which I am perswaded wil 
prove an antispleenetick medicine, beyond most that you have tryed, 
especiall in coniunction with the letter at the end pinned on by your 
brother and carefully preserved ever since by me. I suppose also after 
a view of it you will not easily be perswaded to part with it. Now there 
is one thing in my mind that I would propound to you. I did some 
years agone see papers of weekly edition after the manner of the 
Gazets, under the name of Philosophical Observations by John (Henry) 
Oldenburgh, Felow of the Society. Those of them that I saw con- 
tained relations and passages exceeding worthy the knowledge. Now if 
you could see it in your way to send for the whole of these Collections, 
though I know not whither they are still continued, not having seen any 
these 6 or 7 years, I am perswaded you would not repent of your cost, 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 287 

especially if so much goodnesse might accompany your injoyment as to 
be helpful to your poorer sort of neighbors that will be glad to sit down 
at the reversion of your table. I do not remember that you returned 
any word whether you had met with the story of the late brave Turkish 
Vizier. If it be to be had I am stil very desirous of it. If you have 
Gorsius (?) works by you, doe so much as send out a discourse which 
is as I remember about a greater or 3 part of the book in containing 
Exhortations to young people, and think if it may not deserve translation, 
at least the substance of it. I know not but it might operate the more to 
consider that such lively passages are fetched as it were out of the dark 
bowels of Popish times. I have seen a small treatise in verse, such as it 
is, not over Heliconian, yet honest, printed at Boston, against the 
Quakers, by one B. K. whose name I can not unriddle. The continuance 
of the poxe, winter and Summer upon you is a very sad and something 
unusual dispensation. As to fears of a new warre from the enemie, we 
see not much cause of it. By any thing apearing to our view that 
murther at New London we can not discern to have any root of danger, 
but a mere private act of malice; yet I desire we may not be secure 
especially while the blow upon the Natique Indians is aparent and carries 
a hazardous look in it. The blast upon the wheat is more prevalent this 
year in these parts than it hath been for sundry years past. It is or 
may be a sharp scourg. yet it is better to fal into the hand of the Lord 
than into the hand of man. I hope we shal not into both : thus when 
I begin I scarce know how to make an end. Were I with you, a little 
time would not satisfie me to inquire about the posture of the ministry 
and people at Boston, which seems somewhat odde, but such things are 
not so fit for writing. When your engine comes from London to advance 
speech so incredibly is come, if it wil promote anything toward our 
confabulation at this distance, or if it were much nearer than that you 
mention in your letter, I should think the better of Squire Morland as 
long as I had occasion to think of such things. But I shal grow tedious. 
With, therefore the remembrance of choicest respects to yourself and 
wife, and desire that our hearts may be stirred up in mutual prayer for 
each other, that we may be prepared for our charges and inabled for our 
duties through grace and strength from X* Jesus I remain 

Yours ever in him, Joseph Eliot. 

For the reverend Mr Increase Mather teacher to the 2 d church in 
Boston, these. 

Reverend S r . — I received your letter in winter, with an almanack 
and some verses, for all which I thank you. My letter contained 2 
objections, and in hopes you will not refer me to the mercy of the 
schoolmaster, I wil tel you my further thoughts about them. To that 
that was the 2 d , as I placed them, you give sundry answers, which I 
readily own have a fair look of satisfaction, viz : that it is no more 
strange that Gog and Magog should rise against the heavenly Jerusalem, 
than that the angels should rise against God himself, &c, yet I must say 



288 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

that such answers reach not so fully as I could wish, for there is none 
of them a full proportion to the case in hand, though the instance of 
the angels comes nearest: but I am willing to make most of any thing 
that looks Scripturally rational (?). Then for the other objection con- 
cerning the burning of the world, and the impossibility of an unmiracu- 
lous continuance of the wicked, in case of a general conflagration, I did 
not observe any thing in your letter . . . towards an answer. I would 
therefore be glad to have your thoughts upon it. 2 things I can see 
sayable upon it; 1 that the world may be supposed to suffer combustion 
but in part, as wel as the dead to receive a resurrection but in part, 
were there any countenance for it in scripture : a 2 d thing is that it may 
be taken for a metaphorical combustion which that Allin you mention 
insists upon, but truly if the Chiliasm are proved (?), and if no better 
answers I shal stil remain in my hesitation; furthermore I do not see 
into the reason of your so much insisting in your letter vpon the dis- 
tinction of the personal appearance of X* and the personal raigne, alowing 
the state of that Jerusalem to be perfect heaven, I reach not what is 
gained by the distinction, or lost for want of it ; a new heaven and earth 
I can freely graunt, but a sinlesse heaven is not so clear to me: as for 
Medes conjectures of Gog and Magog, I have not seen that peece. If 
it be by it selfe in a volume, I should be very glad to obtain a sight of 
it, if you would send any by the bearer of this letter, one of my neighbors, 
Stephen Bishop, I should return it safe in about a years time, though I 
have of myself read ... of Mede, as his comment upon the revelations, 
apostacy of the latter times, chappel exercises. I sent for all his works, 
but these were all I ... I prefer him before any I have seen for the 
solid satis . . . understanding. I am glad your book gives so much con- 
tent alread(y) . . . ring of the Church of God is the great thing we 
should aim at in our ... is. your sons verses are well spirited, but in 
my thoughts he wil never win the laurel for his poesy. I am usually 
afraid when I see young men ... be drawn out by a few partial 
admirers to their own disadvantage: the state of the country stands 
very ticklish. I should be glad to hear there were a spirit of ... or 
courage amongst you and of a sound mind. The Lord help us all, that 
we may prepare for what looks out upon us, and yet look up to the 
God of our salvation. This is all at present. 

I am yours in the gospel, Joseph Eliot. 

These three letters to Increase Mather are printed in the 
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 38, pp. 
374-379- 

Letter of Joseph Eliot to John Winthrop, Jr. 

Honorable SS. — I have bene wont to be before hand \v th others in the 
gazets : y s year I have been disappointed of y m . My intreaty y r fore is 
unto yourself, y t you would do me the favor to lend me such as are 
gainable y r , and I shal carefully return y m : it is one addition to the 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 289 

advantage of reading y m y 1 in y s our calamtous times we can the better 
sympathize w th the European stories of the sad effects of y es warrs : as 
also if any thing from the Royal Society be come to hand I desire the 
same favor. Y r is one thing more, I left my wife ill in the Bay, and 
have not gained a word of intelligence from her, or about her, since 
I came away, and hard it is to • gain any, in y s sad interruption of 
passage: if y r be the least intimation to be gathered up by the travailers 
y 4 came last y nc , I suppose it may have reached your ear, and it would 
be no small favor to let me hear it. No further at present, but only 
being glad for the sake of the publique of your having laid aside your 
thoughts of England for the present, I hope I shal have the oftener the 
opportunity to present the affectionate service of 
Guil : 16. 6. 75 Joseph Eliot. 

[From Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 1, 
Fifth Series, pp. 430-1.] 

For letter of Joseph Eliot to his brother Benjamin, see 
previous edition of the Eliot Genealogy, pp. 59-61. 



290 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



16. LIBRARY OF JUDGE JOHN ELIOT 

This is interesting as showing the composition of a large library 
in those days. 

Hartford Probate Office. Vol. 9, p. 321, May 1719 

Value of the Estate £2185-01-04. 

Catalogue of Books. 

£ s. 

One book of Lord Cooks Exp. on Littleton old 001 = 05 = 00 

Seven Psalter 11 America™ 35 s / Cook's History 7 s 002 = 02 = 00 

Bunyan's holy warr 2 s / 6 d Dr Wilds Jte Bowale 1/ 000 = 03 = 06 

Turvettius three Vol = at 15/ S r Walter Rawleighs abridgment 002 = 17 = 00 

Pembles works one Vol 15/ Halls Exp upon Timothy 12 s 001 = 7 = 00 

Tattlers two Vol : 8 s / Maecovii Metaphysica 2 s / 000 = 10 = 00 

Interpreter of Law Terms 7 s / Natura Brevium 5/ 000 = 12 = 00 
Harrifs' Lexicon Teckmienno 50 s / Reports of S r Edward 

Cook 30 s / 004 = 10 = 00 

The Conveyancers Light 10 s / Tryall Perpacis 12 s / 001 = 2 = 00 

Alstedis Enyclopadia 25/ Wingates abridgement of Stat 8/ 001 = 13 = 00 
Jure Maritimo 12 s / the Orphans Legacy 14 s / ' 001 = 06 = 00 

History of Henry the 7 th 3 s / The Christian Warfare 7 s / 001 = 10 = 00 

Choice presidents Richard Kilborn 000 = 08 = 00 

The man of Sin or discourse of popery 5 s / 000 = 05 = 00 

The Interpreter of the Academy 4/ The whole duty of man 3/ 000 = 07 = 00 
Lucan's Poetry 8 d / Boston Laws 2 s / Ordinance of the Lords 

and Commons 4 s / 000 = 06 = 08 
Deritus Nuptianum i s / Comentaries Hystorique 4 s / 000 = 05 = 00 
Naturalis Phylisophia 4 s / two account books 12 s / 000 = 16 = 00 
Epitime Revisii i8 d / Lees Joy of faith 2 s / Fred r Logick 6/ 000 = 04 = 00 
Hobart's Narrative 3 s / Icono Closster 4 d / Mazesii Lesdivorae I 9 / 000 = 04 = 04 
Negotiations de paix 1 s / a Treatise of Eng : particles 3 s / 000 = 4 = 00 
Tulleys Orations I 3 / Jsraells complaint for want of Govern- 
ment 3 3 / 000 = 04 = 00 
Secrets in Physick i 8 / M r Stoddards Benefit of the Gospell 18 9 / 000 = 02 = 06 
one old Hebrew Psalter 6 d : Husbandman's Guide i s / 000 = 01 = 06 
Boston Laws 3 9 / a Pamphlet 2 s / Mr Gearrings Life I 3 / 6 d 000 = 06 = 06 
Havey on Annimalls 3 s / Expostulations of the Clergy 4 d / 000 = 03 = 04 
Vindication of the bank 4 d / Homers Jlices 2/ 000 = 02 = 04 
Dr Owens Diatriba 3 d / Distinctiones Phylosophice 2 s / 6 d 000 = 05 = 06 
Jinstructor Chericales 2 9 / Objections to the bank 4 d 000 = 02 = 04 
Hardship concerning Oaths 4 d / Report from the ComSecrecie 2 3 / 000 = 02 = 04 
The Second Spira i 8 / Epitome theatres I 3 / Hallan Convert I 9 / 000 = 03 = 00 
a Call to the Unconverted i 3 /4 d / Englands glory i 3 /6 d 000 = 02= 10 
Election Sermon 4 d / Mystery of Husbandry i 9 /6 d 000 = 01 = 10 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 291 

old Psalms I 8 / Vincentii Lozinensis i s /6 Succia I s 000 = 03= 6 

Cutlars Election Sermon 6 d / Felici Octavius 4 d / 000 = 00= 10 

History of Henry the 7 th in French 1 s / Opera Josephi 10 s / 000= 11 = 00 

Orelius upon the holy Evangelist io d / Biblica Hebraica 3S d 000 = 02 = 05 

Legrands Memoirs 15 s / Erasmin Jnovram Testamentum 6/ 001 = 01=00 

Peter Matyrs Com* 10 s / Beza upon the New Testament 14 s / 001 = 04 = 00 

Ainsworths Annotations 18 s / Cameron Theologes 15 s / 001 = 13 = 00 

Alsteade Second Vol : 15 s / Lexecon greek and Lattin 10 s / 001 = 05 = 00 

The Harmony upon the Evangelist 2 Vol 50 s / Syntagma the 20 s / 003 = 10 = 00 
Greek and Lattin Concordance 10 s / Musculu/ Com ta Merces 

Com tas 28 s 001 = 18 = 00 

Vinditia Gratice D r Twifs 10 s / Moller upon Psalms 15 s / 001 = 05 = 00 

Syntagma The 12 s / Marloratt upon his Aire 15 s / 001 = 07 = 00 

Orsonii Pepme i s / Burgifs Expo c y Sermons 12 s / 000= 13 = 00 
Kerchers Greek & Hebrew Concordance 10 s / Hebrew & Greek 

Lexicon 10 s / 001 = 00 = 00 

Com ta Parei 10 s / Socrates Epis to 5 s / Calvin upon Daniel 6 s / 001 = 01 = 00 
Pareus Com ta in English 10 s / The Hystory of Melchion Adm 

10 s / 6 d 001 = 00 = 06 

Rogers Sermons upon Judges 15 s / Comments upon Joshua 10 s / 001 = 05 = 00 
Cartwright upon the Evangelist 8 s / Com ta on Genifsis 5 s / The 

Turkish History ( ?) 10 s / 001 = 03 = 00 
Byshop Smith Sermons 6 s / Dialogi de mundo 8 s / the Saint 

Qualifications 5 s / 000 = 19 = 00 
Rami Schola io s /Cathalogus Jacobii 5 s / Old Lattin Dictionary i 3 / 000 = 16 = 00 

Calvin upon Ezekiel 6 s / Prosodia I 3 / Indian bible 6 3 / 000 = 13 = 00 

Senecas Phylosophia 8 s / Compendium Theologia I 3 / 000 = 09 = 00 

Racticcell Catich m 4 d Whitakers Disputation 3 s / ooo = 03 = oo(?) 

Com ta on the Acts 4 s / Justit Theo 2 s / Hookers Survey 4 8 / 000 = 10 = 00 

Vellerminus Enervatus 5 3 /a Chronology 4 s / Prestons Sermons4 8 / 000 = 13 = 00 

Chronology Vofsii 3 s / Beza s Com ta on Job 3 s / one old Com ta 1 s / 000 = 07 = 00 

Mount Pisgah 3 s / 6 d Quarduples Dictionary 4 s / Symbolacees 6 d / 000 = 08 = 00 

Analysis Logea 3 s / 6 d Blonds Tenent 2 s / 000 = 05 = 06 

Tetcastilon Papismi 2 3 / Junius Parrerell Scripta i s / 6 d 000 = 03 = 06 

Erasmus Colloquies 2 s / Calvins French Commens 3 3 / 000 = 05 = 00 

Hedegin Analysis 6 s / Bilsons perpetual Government 3 s / 000 = 09 = 00 

Dunhams Sum of Sacred divinity 5 s / The History of Alexand er 6 d / 000 = 05 = 06 

Theodosiei Analysis Evafig : 4 s / Rollock on the Evangelist 4 s / 000 = 08 = 00 

Moddle of Divinity 2 s / Survey of the Lattin tongue 2 3 / 000 = 04 = 00 

Herkermans Logick 3 3 / Records Arithmetick 3 s / 000 = 06 = 00 

Aristottle 3 Logick 6 d Ordinances of the Lords & Commons 4 s / 000 = 04 = 06 

Lexicon Theologicum 2 s / Ciceros Philosophy 4 s / 000 = 06 = 00 

Dente Ronomion I 3 / Catchisticall doctrin 3 s / 000 = 04 = 00 

Justins History i s /6 d Notes on Gospell & Epis ts 2 3 / 000 = 03 = 06 

the new directory 3 3 / Clavis Homerica 3 s / Reports 4 s / 000 = 10 = 00 

D r Amos upon Conscience 2 s / Boy's Exp i s / 000 = 03 = 00 

Wright on the Sphere 1 s / Euclides Meta Physica 2 s / 000 = 03 = 00 

Analysis Logyea Dieterieie 3 3 / Virgill 2 3 /Exp° on the Psalmes 2 s / 000 = 07 = 00 



292 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Phraises Latine 6 d Homoles Swetii 6 d Prosodia 2 s / 000 = 03 = 00 
Horace Epist . i 8 / Ovids Metamorphosis 1 s / a method of 

dyalling(?) i s /6 d 000 = 03 = 06 

Calliepia 8 d / Reliego Medeci 6 d / Analysis on the Rev : 6 s 000 = 07 = 02 

Cooks Jnstitutes 10 s / Theams 2 s Mortialii i 8 / Rhetorick i s /6 d 000=: 14 = 06 

Bacons book Learning 4 s / Forbs Com ta 4 s / Fays Theo 3 8 / 000 = 1 1 = 00 

Shiboleth f rench I 8 / Virgillii 2 s / old Poet 6 d / 000 = 03 = 06 

the discription of Eng : in Latin 8 d / Apolegia Catholica 4 s / 000 = 04 = 08 

Practice of Christianity 2 s / Prid's Orations 2 8 / 000 =1 04 = 00 



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17. PUBLICATIONS OF REV. JOHN ELIOT (No. 96). 

"A selected, pronouncing and accented Dictionary, Comprising a 
Selection of the Choicest Words found in the best English Authors, 
Being an Abridgement of the most useful Dictionaries now extant; 
together with the addition of a number of words now in vogue not found 
in any Dictionary. 

In which the definitions are concisely given, the words so divided as 
to lead to the present mode of pronunciation, and by a typographical 
character, the sound of the vowels and accented syllables are distinctly 
pointed out ; and the parts of speech noted & explained. 

The whole made easy and familiar to children or youth and designed 
for the use of schools in America. 

By John Elliott, 

Pastor of the Church in East-Guilford. 

And Samuel Johnson, junr. 

Author of the School Dictionary". 

In addition to the above, the work contains some general observation 
on the derivation of words, and an explanation of the inseparable 
prepositions, together with a table correcting common errors in spelling 
and pronunciation. 

Published according to act of Congress. 

Suffield: (Conn.) 

Printed by Edward Gray, For Oliver D. & I. Cook, and sold by them in 

sheets or bound, at their Book Store Hartford. 

M.DCCC. 

i6mo. oblong, pp. 16 & 223. 

Johnson's "School Dictionary", published in 1798, was the 
first Dictionary of the English language by an American author. 
This was the second, and there were two editions printed the 
same year. 

Discourse on the death of Gen. Washington, pp. 23, 1800 

Discourse occasioned by the death of Rev. Amos Fowler of 

Guilford, pp. 26, 1800 

Discourse delivered on the first sabbath after the commencement of 

the year, 1802. pp. 39 1802 

Discourse occasioned by the death of Mrs. Mabel Lee, . . 1802 
Discourse delivered at the ordination of the Rev. David D. Field, 

pp. 28, 1805 

Sermon occasioned by the death of Capt. William Whittlesey and 

others, pp. 24, 1807 



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DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



Sermon at the ordination of Rev. Saul Clark by Vinson Gould 
contains "The Right Hand of Fellowship" by Elliott, pp. 23 & 
24 (two pages) 

Sermon delivered at the interment of the Rev. Thomas Wells Bray, 

PP- 30, 

Sermon on the anniversary election, pp. 52, ... 

Sermon at the Installation of Rev. Philander Parmellee, pp. 23, 
Consociation Sermon, pp. 21 ...... 

Sermon at Ordination of Rev. Eleazer Thompson Fitch, pp. 26 
Sermon after the death of Jonathan Todd, pp. 31, 



1808 

1808 
1810 
1816 
1818 
1818 
1819 



The title of the Dictionary is given in full ; those of the 
sermons somewhat abbreviated and in some instances slightly 



changed. 



§ o 



2" a 




DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 295 

18. MISCELLANEOUS. 
NATICK DICTIONARY. 

In 1903 the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smith- 
sonian Institution published a work by James Hammond Trum- 
bull, with an introduction by Edward Everett Hale, being, in 
short, a dictionary of the Algonquin languages — the same ones 
in which Eliot's Bible was written. We quote from the 
introduction : 

"Dr. Trumbull's vocabularies constitute the most important contribution 
to the scientific study of Eliot's Indian Bible which has been made since 
that wonderful book was published." 

"Such careful study as Dr. Trumbull and Duponceau and Pickering and 
Heckewelder have given to the Algonquin languages shows beyond a 
doubt that John Eliot was one of the great philologists of the world. 
His study of the remarkable grammatic construction of the Indian 
languages proves to be scientific and correct." 

"All study of these languages through the century which has just 
passed has proved that the elaborate system of grammar was correctly 
described by Eliot, and, to the surprise of European philologists, that it 
is fairly uniform. 



"A Corporation for the Promoting and Propagating of the 
Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England", established July 27, 
1649. With the restoration of Charles II., it became defunct, 
but it was revived under the name of "The Company for the 
Propagation of the Gospel in New England and the parts 
adjacent in America". Nowadays it is known as the New 
England Company. Its work is now carried on in British 
America. 

This Society, the oldest Protestant Missionary Society in the 
world, owes its origin to reports from New England in regard 
to the promising labors to convert the Indians to Christianity. 
Large collections were made throughout England and Wales, 
and legacies were bequeathed, whereby the expense of printing 
the Bible and translations of several books in the Indian lan- 
guage, and the payment of the salaries of missionaries and 
school teachers, was defrayed. 

In the appendix to the Life of John Eliot by the Rev. 
Nehemiah Adams, p. 311, it is stated that in 1800, the funds of 
the Society amounted to $20,000. In 1847 they were about 
19 



296 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

twice that sum. At present they are so large that no additions 
are called for. 

In 1899, the President wrote: — "The business of the Company 
is carried on justly and ungrudgingly by its members as it has 
been for two and a half centuries without fee or reward of any 
kind other than that of a good conscience and doing their 
duty." 

Propositions aboute appiel and fashions to declare wt is sinful 
and offensive. Written by John Eliot in 1658. 

1 For the meaner sort of men or women to aime to goe in their app'iel 
for matter or for manner, according to the cheaper or wealthier is justly 
offensive because it is above theire ranke, ability 

2 for any to weare yt app'il here yt for matter or manner did not 
beseeme them or those of the same ranke they now are in Old England, 
is also justly offensive. 

3 notwithstanding this fall of many estates here, we doe not think it 
offensive to ware out such app'el as they brought with them provided it 
was not above their ranke in England 

4 if such provide new, it is offensive to provide it according to their 
Estate yt was in England if above wt it is here. 

5 Constancy in a fashion is commendable especiall in Christians and 
therefore such levity of spirit, as to follow new fashions so soon as they 
be in use among the vain youth in our country, or among strangers, it 
is a matter particrly offensive. 

6. all garish or wanton fashions are justly offensive, as to goe with 
brests or wrists naked to an immoderate height. 

7 locks and long haire (now in England cal'd rattle heads and opposite 
to Christians who weare short haire, all of a length and therefore cal'd 
round heads) is an offence to many godly Christians and therefore be it 
known to such they walk offensively. 

Taken from a scrap-book in the Library of the New England 
Historic-Genealogical Society. They were printed in the 
"Norfolk County Journal", Roxbury, Mass., from the Book 
of Records of the Church in Roxbury, Mass., in the handwriting 
of John Eliot, "Apostle to the Indians". The context shows 
that they were written on, or before "24 th of 8 th m 1658." 



JOHN ELIOT'S RECIPE FOR MAKING INK. 

From an article by the Rev. James DeNormandie, D.D., in the 
"New England Magazine," New Series, vol. xv, pp. 259-278, 
entitled, "John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians". 

"Fac-simile of the first page of the Roxbury Church Records 
in Eliot's writing" 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 297 

A SINGULAR WAY TO MAKE INK. 

The spring time is best to make it. the proportions of a quart : Take 
a quart of white wine, worte or raine watr 4 ounces of galls quartered, 
not powdered 2 ounces of coppras : (or lese) one ounce & halfe of 
gumme arabik put these together cold & stir ym often, especially at first — ■ 
after 10 weeks straine it throu a cleane harde (hair) cloth. And the 
same materials will make as much inke over and over againe, if you put 
first vinegar, or old beer strong beer — wirt or water will mould in the 
top, wine or old stale beer will not. 

The handwriting of the original is not readily deciphered. 
The above reading is that of J. Wingate Thornton, deceased, as 
found in a Scrap-book in the Library of the New England 
Historic-Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass. 



PARISH, TOMB AT ROXBURY. 
(See illustration.) 

Near the centre of the burial ground, corner of Eustis and 
Washington Streets, Roxbury, is "The Parish Tomb". Its 
sides, about three feet high, made of sandstone, are covered by 
a marble slab, which is thus inscribed : 

Here lie the Remains 

of 

John Eliot, 

The Apostle to the Indians, 

Ordained over the First Church Nov. 5, 1632. Died May 20, 1690. 

Aged lxxxvi. 

Also of 

Thomas Walter, 

Ordained Oct. 19, 1718. Died Jan. 10, 1725. 

Aged xxix. 

Nehemiah Walter, 

Ordained Oct. 17, 1688. Died Sept. 17, 1750. 

Aged lxxxvii. 

Oliver Peabody, 

Ordained Nov. 7, 1750. Died May 29, 1752. 

Aged xxxii. 

Amos Adams, 

Ordained Sept. 12, 1753. Died Oct. 5, 1775. 

Aged xlvii. 

Eliphalet Porter, 

Ordained Oct. 2, 1782. Died Dec. 7, 1833. 

Aged lxxv. 

This tomb was erected in 1857 in place of the original one. 



298 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

A SHEAF OF SONG. 

In Memory of Ethel Lynn Beers. 

By Josephine Pollard. 

The world is full of singers, and they throng 
By various ways to reach a common goal, 

Each giving to the air such meed of song 
As he can best control. 

Some wear the golden rose of melody, replete 
With fragrance that a subtle charm imparts ; 

While others, crowned with violets, warble sweet 
To a few friendly hearts. 

Some wander to the mountain top sublime, 

A loftier inspiration to inhale, 
And smile at those who ne'er essay to climb 

Above the lowly vale. 

And she who with a graceful movement swept 
The chords of song to tender melodies, 

Assured the world that 'twas a woman kept 
Her fingers on the keys. 

When all forgotten is the lofty strain 
Whose rhymes are woven with ingenious art, 

Her words of simple pathos will remain 
Engraven on the heart. 

And when she strove to bind the sheaf of song 
That sweetly blossomed 'neath a kindly sun, 

The Master called her from the busy throng ; 
Her work on earth was done. 

While cities turned the leaves she fell asleep, 
Nor praise nor blame her quiet slumbers break, 

And those who loved her best her songs will keep, 
And treasure for her sake. 



MONTHLY ADVICE PUBLISHED IN BECKWITH'S ALMANAC. 

1851 

By Charles Wyllys Elliott. 

January. 

Now take care of your cattle — remember that a good man is good to 

his beast. Now instruct your children — see that your wife does not 

become a drudge. Now see to the getting of good seed and guard it from 

rats and mice. Look over your fruit bins — send some that is good to 

the poor and the sick. Take some to the clergyman, help him to search 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 299 

for the truth. Spend a dollar or two in books — don't be afraid of good 
ones. See that idleness does not open the door to the devil. 

February. 
Now is the time to get all ready for spring — the sap of the tree will tend 
toward the branches — begin to stir. Warm your blood with work and 
not with rum. Sharpen your plows, your hoes, mend your tools, see to 
your rake teeth, your own, your childrens, especially. Now get together 
all sorts of rubbish for manure — lay it out from the barn-yard in heaps 
in your fields when convenient. Now is the time to open your books, 
encourage your wife, see what your children are about; an ounce of 
encouragement is worth a pound of fault-finding. Keep your body clean, 
and wrench from your mind prejudice and meanness — preach the truth 
and practice it. 

March. 
Now straighten all out for spring — look over tools, seeds, &c, get 
fences mended, gates made. Get grafts of good fruits, cuttings of 
quinces, currants, &c, — Think seriously about selling our your remain- 
ing produce — remember that you cannot always get the highest price. Let 
your wife see what a miserable place the city is — bring her some clean 
salt for butter — look in upon improved tools, a hint is sometimes as 
good as a kick. Now get out your manure, and keep ahead of your work. 
Prune your grape vines, trees, &c. — Tie up your raspberries. Read, 
even though it is not Sunday, if you can contrive no other work. 

April. 
Now begin in earnest — plow well ; and plow deep — six inches is not 
often too deep, and men have gone eight inches with good results. Plow 
worn-out fields well, and put in clover or rye, to be turned under for 
manure. Keep your land up, in good heart. Now plant all your trees, 
and examine the roots of peach trees for grubs — begin in the garden with 
peas and potatoes. Now prepare for 'lection, and vote for a man who 
will do justly, rather than for a party slave. Remember that the truth 
alone can make you free. 

May. 
Now work, for it is diligence which maketh rich; know to-day what 
you will do to-morrow; so the morning, the cream of the day, may be 
saved. Remember that this month is the great month for the farmer; 
having prepared for it thoroughly, do it intelligently. Now see to the 
garden, get in a good supply of peas, beans, tomatoes, cabbages, (possibly 
celery) &c, &c. You will find pleasure and profit will result. Look out 
well for caterpillars and insects, and let none escape you ; Now, after 
planting, take two days for recreation — go to the seaside, if you can. 

June. 
Now hoe — hoe well. Pay as you go — but don't pay too dear for 
experience. Now put in some patches of carrots for winter feed for 



3°0 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

cows. You should not be behind with your work, but should have 
some leisure to think of what you have done, what you ought to do, 
and if you have done wrong, to repent. Now beware of anger, or you 
may fall into the hands of lawyers, a class of most unfortunate, if not 
worthy men. 

July. 

Now you should begin to lay by for the winter — a full harvest makes a 
glad hearth. Remember that to him to whom much is given, much will 
be required. Let us have no more grumbling at God's weather — farm- 
ers never starve — a drought is not the greatest evil, neither blight nor 
mildew. 

Now bud your trees ; grub up briers and thorns. Be careful not to 
overwork yourself nor your hands; drink water, but do not drink to 
excess. Remember the account of the woman who spent her fortune 
upon physicians, but instead of growing better rather grew worse. 

August. 

Now bethink yourself of hospitality — that much neglected virtue, see 
that your poor city cousins get a breath of fresh air. Now- be not 
ashamed of your oak floors, and your boiled pork upon such glad occa- 
sions. Now is the time to plow in weeds, to put in turnip crops, to 
bud peach trees and to see that no grubs are in the roots and make 
strawberry beds. Use what leisure you have well, and think not alto- 
gether of your own pleasure. 

September. 

Now clear up all brambles and weeds — save all rubbish in your 
manure heap. Ditch your marshy ground before the autumn rains. Now 
see that your garden is clear from weeds — let everything be done decently 
and in order, Don't be afraid when you have leisure to look for Truth — 
it may be found in a stable, as often perhaps as in a palace — our of your 
party or church as often as in it. 

October. 

Now you should store up your crops — what do you suppose the win- 
ter is for? One design of it is that you may prepare for it. Now top 
your corn stalks for fodder — select your seed corn and put it by where 
it will not heat — make your potatoes into three lots, one to feed the 
cows, one to sell and and one to give away. When the Indian summer 
comes go up to the mountains with your wife and praise God. 

November. 

Now remember how inconvenient it is to make a fire on a cold morn- 
ing with a green wood covered with snow, and try to avoid this dreadful 
necessity. Provide simple and good clothes for yourself and your 
household, and secure the same sort of manners. Look out around you 
for the poor and the good-for-nothing; do not let drunkards make 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 301 

drunkards and paupers out of their children ; every man is responsible 
for his own children, and, in some degree, for those of the incompetent 
— every pauper is money out of your pocket. Give thanks not only by 
eating well, but by doing well. 

December. 

Now keep warm and keep well — let every one resolve to live so that 
colds and rheumatism will not enter his household. See that your chil- 
dren have good books, and do not be afraid to pay for a good teacher — 
but remember always that the best education is that which is got at 
home. 

Now see that cattle, sheep, hens, etc., have good sheds and houses — 
see that they do not go hungry and dry as well as cold. There is never 
time to be idle — work, read, think! One great purpose of existence is 
work — to work in well-doing. Remember that in this month Christ 
was born — try to see with your own eyes what his life and death teach; 
and be certain of this, that a Christmas day spent in stuffing one's body 
and torturing live turkeys with a gun is a desecration. 



THE LAST OF ELIOT'S INDIANS. 

A correspondent from Boston writes of the "last of John 
Eliot's Indians" in the New York Sun of March 30, 1902. 
Mrs. Patience Fidelia Clifton, a widow, seventy-two years old, 
resides on Brigham's Hill, Grafton, Mass., the Indian name of 
which was Hassanamesitt. She is not purely Indian, as she 
has a strain of Negro blood. The Massachusetts Legislature 
grants her an annuity of $200, payable through the selectmen 
of the town. 



POSITIVE PEDIGREE AND AUTHORIZED ARMS. 

In a number of the New England Genealogical and His- 
torical Register descendants of the following are mentioned 
as the only American families having the right to use English 
crests and coats-of-arms. Since then a few others have been 
added : 

Joseph Alsop Rev. John Davenport. 

Samuel Appleton. Humphrey Davie. 

Thomas Broughton John Drake. 

Obadiah Bruce Edmund Fawkener. 

Rev. Peter Bulkley. George Fenwick. 

Rev. Chas. Chauncey. W m Gayer. 

Leonard Chester. W m Hanbury. 



302 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 

Roger Harlakenden. Samuel Penhallow. 

John Hunlock. David Phippen. 

W m Jeffrey. Sir Richard Saltonstall 

W m Leete. W m Snelling. 

Percival Lowle. Samuel Symonds. 

Edward Palms. John Thorndyke. 

Herbert Pelham. George Wyllys. 
John Winthrop. 

As it has never been proved that John Eliot was descended 
from the St. Germans branch of the family, the family has no 
right to use the crest and coat-of-arms published in the title-page 
of the old Eliot genealogy. 



EXTRACTS FROM EDWARD EVERETT HALE'S ESTIMATE 

OF ELIOT. 

"It would seem that we owe to Eliot the establishment of the 
first proper Sunday School in America and perhaps one may say 
in the English Realm". 

[See Part III, "Events in the Life of John Eliot", for the 
extract taken from the Roxbury Church records in regard to 
the religious instruction of the youth.] 

Dr. DeNormandie, pastor of the Eliot Church at Roxbury, 
ascribes to Eliot the general establishment of "grammar schools" 
among the institutions of Massachusetts. He says : "One day 
all the neighboring churches were gathered in Boston to 'con- 
sider how the miscarriages which were among us might be 
prevented'. Eliot exclaimed with great fervor 'Lord for our 
schools everywhere among us ! That our schools may flourish ! 
That every member of this assembly may go home and procure 
a good school to be encouraged in the town where he lives ! 
That before we die we may be so happy as to see a good school 
encouraged in every plantation in the country.' " 

Cotton Mather adds : 

"God so pleased his endeavors that Roxbury could not live 
quietly without a free school in the town". "And the issue of 
it has been one thing which has almost made me put the title 
of "Schola Illustrus" upon that little nursery ; that is that Rox- 
bury has afforded more scholars, first for the college and then 
for the publick, than any town of its bigness — or if I mistake 
not, of twice its bigness, in all New-England." 



INDICES 



INSTRUCTIONS 

TO FIND YOUR RECORD IN PART II. 



The numbers in small-sized type run along consecutively through the 
book, being interrupted by the numbers in large type only where a male 
Eliot appears as head of a family. 

// you are an Eliot, look up your name in the Eliot index and from your 
birth date find your number. Turn to the corresponding number in small 
type and find your record. If you are a female Eliot, your record is in 
one place only. If you are a male Eliot and there is a + sign before 
your name in the small type, this signifies a continuation and you must 
look forward to your number in large type to find your record as head 
of a family. 

If your name is other than Eliot look it up in Index II., where you 
will find opposite to your name not only the number of the Eliot who 
was your ancestor, but also a page reference. 



ELIOT INDEX 



A 

Born. No. 

1643 Aaron 6 

1718 Aaron 27 

1758 Aaron 52 

1692 Abial 17 

1764 Abigail 107 

1765 Abigail 108 

1773 Abigail 113 

1803 Abigail Ward 229 

1781 Achilles Henry 102 

1874 Ada Blanche 623 

1847 Adele Sera 323 

1847 Adelia Jane 447 

1816 Adeline 372 

1869 Agnes Elizabeth 581 

1850 Agnes M 448 

1875 Agnes M 679 

1888 Albert Buell 721 

1870 Albert Spence 578 

1840 Alexander Lucius 410 

1802 Alexander McGilvrae .... 235 

Alice 35 2 

1851 Alice J 449 

1850 Alice Ophelia 424 

1846 Almira H 495 

1865 Alphonso Byron 467 

1882 Alwilda May 534 

1787 Amanda 94 

1844 Amanda Malvina 446 

1790 Amelia Zipporah 164 

1865 Amy 599 

1770 Andrew ill 

1826 Andrew Ward 217 

1677 Ann 11 

1710 Ann 19 

1788 Ann Maria 139 

1858 Anna 435 

1852 Anna Grace 481 

1810 Anna Maria 262 



Born. 
844 
863 
857 
874 
904 

875 
895 
851 
720 

749 
779 
835 
768 
884 
808 
900 



683 
816 
646 
762 
888 
867 
865 
878 
871 



854 
887 
878 
897 



1882 
1815 



No. 

Anna Park 494 

Archie H 576 

Arthur 305 

Arthur Corral 532 

Arthur Harris 735 

Arthur James 507 

Arthur Roland 511 

Ashbel Riley 473 

Augustus 28 

Augustus 56 

Augustus 82 

Augustus Barney 310 

Augustus Griswold 68 

Augustus Hull 703 

Augustus J 146 

Avis Elizabeth 641 

B 

Barsheba 13 

Belinda Maria 253 

Benjamin 7 

Benjamin 54 

Benjamin H 687 

Benjamin Upson 572 

Bernice 429 

Beryl 669 

Bessie 486 

Bessie 586 

Birdie Leon 650 

Blanche 353 

Burdett Johnson 315 

Burton 539 

Burton Harvey 625 

Byron 694 

C 

Carl 634 

Caroline 176 



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DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



Born. No. 

1821 Caroline Amelia 293 

1796 Caroline Elizabeth 166 

1815 Caroline Elizabeth 261 

1858 Caroline Louisa 475 

1864 Caroline Redfield 571 

1797 Caroline Ruth 219 

1885 Carolyn Grace 656 

1856 Carrie 426 

1862 Carrie 399 

1874 Carrie 501 

1777 Catherine 81 

1777 Catherine 90 

1833 Catherine 282 

1841 Catherine 333 

1841 Catherine Cecelia 392 

1799 Catherine Hill 227 

1894 Catherine Marguerite .... 620 

1786 Charles 138 

1787 Charles 212 

1837 Charles 318 

1831 Charles Alexander 361 

1813 Charles Augustus 289 

1815 Charles Augustus 181 

1856 Charles Augustus 344 

1900 Charles Edwin 733 

1830 Charles Frederick 270 

1836 Charles Goodrich 283 

1861 Charles Gustavus 345 

1874 Charles Hamilton 358 

1855 Charles Henry 491 

1819 Charles Jared 292 

1889 Charles John 509 

1848 Charles Lucius 299 

1883 Charles M 683 

1824 Charles Morgan 376 

1901 Charles Morgan 719 

1849 Charles Norman 480 

1877 Charles Norman 654 

1809 Charles S 232 

1855 Charles Sumner 474 

1878 Charles Sumner 646 

1846 Charles W 297 

Charles Watkins 143 

1817 Charles Wyllys 234 

1792 Charlotte 132 

1829 Charlotte 281 

1810 Chauncey Smithson 249 



Born. No. 

1861 Chauncey Smithson 453 

1892 Chester Lewis 711 

1877 Clara Bell 504 

1892 Clara Louise 726 

T 759 Clarina 62 

1813 Clarina 155 

1815 Clarissa 290 

1795 Clarissa Betsey 218 

1848 Clark Robert 455 

1898 Clifford Benjamin 718 

1864 Cora 400 

1859 Cora Bell 484 

1806 Cornelia Maria 223 

1827 Cornelia Maria 380 

D 

T 79S Daniel 160 

Daniel Morse 471 

1875 Daniel Morse 644 

1835 Daughter 274 

1769 Deborah 86 

1802 Deborah 187 

1857 Delia Marie 483 

1887 Douglas Fitch Guilford ... 602 



E 

895 Earl Richard 629 

862 Eddie M 606 

840 Edgar Timothy 417 

886 Edith 594 

895 Edith January 604 

885 Edna 538 

771 Edward 87 

814 Edward 199 

820 Edward 374 

850 Edward 351 

861 Edward 569 

864 Edward 348 

881 Edward 682 

892 Edward Armstrong 543 

841 Edward Benjamin 295 

861 Edward Everett 476 

812 Edward Gregory 171 

849 Edward Gregory 336 

904 Edward Lee 716 



ELIOT INDEX. 



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Born. No. 

1886 Edwin Henry 720 

Elbridge Gerry 470 

1852 Eli Emery 415 

1784 Elias Austin 137 

Eliza 141 

1807 Eliza 189 

Eliza 326 

1835 Eliza 389 

1846 Eliza Ellen 517 

1865 Eliza W 355 

171 1 Elizabeth 24 

1712 Elizabeth 20 

1762 Elizabeth 55 

1766 Elizabeth 109 

1768 Elizabeth 77 

1794 Elizabeth 133 

1799 Elizabeth 127 

1807 Elizabeth 169 

1812 Elizabeth 365 

1807 Elizabeth Betts 231 

1875 Elizabeth Luella 653 

1904 Elizabeth Margaretta .... 738 

1842 Elizabeth Maria 277 

1890 Elizabeth Maud 713 

1890 Elizabeth Naomi 632 

1858 Ellen 436 

1812 Ellen Elizabeth 198 

1844 Ellen Maria 312 

1827 Ellsworth 246 

1864 Ellsworth 439 

1877 Ellsworth 584 

1861 Elmer E 307 

i860 Elmer Elisha 317 

1902 Elmer Ellsworth 662 

1837 Elmira Julia 403 

1784 Ely 103 

1791 Ely Augustus 206 

1854 Ely Augustus 546 

1897 Elzia Clifford 699 

1882 Emery Storrs 648 

1837 Emily 330 

1847 Emily Jane 413 

1864 Emily Josephine 485 

1809 Emma 173 

1850 Emma Celestia 456 

1859 Emma Elinora 427 

1858 Emmons Jewett 316 



Born. 
1876 
1903 

1895 
1827 
1878 
189 1 
1840 
l8l0 

1843 
1866 

1873 
1844 
1849 
1778 



865 
853 
800 

783 
853 
896 

875 
887 

847 
814 
816 
835 
871 
798 
860 
860 



855 
862 
872 
904 
836 
817 
845 
830 
8l2 
860 
892 



No. 

Essie 668 

Esther Emma 731 

Esther Harrison 618 

Ethelinda 280 

Ethel Jane 508 

Ethel Rosalia 710 

Eugene Wyllys 385 

Eunice Harriet 259 

Eunice S 445 

Eva Delia 607 

Eva Margaretta 558 

Evelina Ann 422 

Eveline 414 

Experience 91 

F 

Fannie Laura 443 

Fanny Cornelia 551 

Fanny Griswold 195 

Fanny Ledyard 93 

Fanny Maria '. . 567 

Fayette M 691 

Flora 590 

Florence Depew 657 

Florence Verilla 423 

Florida E 172 

Frances 200 

Frances Amelia 271 

Frances Julia 502 

Frances Maria 135 

Frances Mary 457 

Francis 560 

Frank 396 

Frank 592 

Frank 664 

Frank Augustus 347 

Frank F 460 

Frank L 53* 

Frank Lydston 737 

Franklin Frederick 311 

Franklin Reuben 226 

Frederick 320 

Frederic Betts 401 

Frederick Tyler 241 

Frederick Wyllys 440 

Frederick Wyllys 619 



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DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



Born. 
1886 
1884 
1877 
1887 
1736 
1767 
i860 

1894 
1792 
1820 
I8SI 
l86l 
1867 
1887 
1819 
1864 
1842 

1873 
1866 
l8 5 6 
1826 
I8l8 
1901 
1891 
1865 
1894 
1898 
i860 

1873 
1830 
l8lO 
183 1 
1865 
1886 
1852 
1858 
1880 

1857 
I8I0 
1822 



1633 
1713 
1719 



G 

No. 

Gail 672 

Gaylord Winter 655 

Geneva Bessie 498 

Genevieve 667 

George 34 

George 95 

George 547 

George 541 

George Augustus 213 

George Augustus 369 

George Augustus 565 

George Augustus 575 

George Augustus 563 

George E 621 

George Edwin 359 

George Edwin 548 

George F 363 

George Fitzallan 675 

George Horace 528 

George Perry 463 

George Webster 269 

George Wyllys 214 

Geraldine Gibson 739 

Gertrude 510 

Gertrude A 562 

Gladys A 741 

Gladys Irene 729 

Grace 437 

Grace 589 

Grace Ann 381 

Grace Fairchild 224 

Grace Fairchild 387 

Grace Love 579 

Grace M 676 

Grace Redfield 545 

Granville 464 

Grizola B 533 

Gustavus 432 

Gustavus John 179 

Gustavus Rose 243 

H 

Hannah 2 

Hannah 25 

Hannah 23 



Born. 
746 

755 
763 
777 
784 
842 
817 
813 
870 
896 
892 
806 
817 
838 
836 
860 
872 
849 
851 



873 
870 
862 

874 
896 

784 
830 
789 
886 

894 
890 

895 
880 

879 
891 
856 
849 
817 
782 
782 
819 
844 
886 
840 
821 



No. 

Hannah 48 

Hannah 45 

Hannah 83 

Hannah 101 

Hannah 122 

Hannah C 493 

Hannah Cornelia 272 

Hannah Polina 251 

Hannah R 677 

Harold Langley 717 

Harold S 689 

Harriet 188 

Harriet 177 

Harriet Ann 275 

Harriet Augusta 419 

Harriet Elizabeth 465 

Harriet Lovina 527 

Harriet Sophia 386 

Harriet Virginia 342 

Harriet Ward 222 

Harriet Wheeler 702 

Harriette Floyd 671 

Harry Cook 503 

Harry Eli 609 

Harry Lewis 441 

Harry Luzerne 614 

Harry Owen 712 

Harvey 119 

Harvey 247 

Harvey Spencer 184 

Hattie 512 

Heber 639 

Helen 540 

Helen Barbara 698 

Helen E 666 

Helen Gertrude 600 

Helen Leone 640 

Helen M 451 

Henrietta 285 

Henrietta Maria 367 

Henry 118 

Henry 136 

Henry 266 

Henry 412 

Henry 665 

Henry Achilles 362 

Henry Augustus 360 



ELIOT INDEX. 



3°9 



Born. 
1822 
183 1 
1869 
1862 
1859 
1863 
1805 

1833 
1884 
1848 



l89S 
1846 
1866 
1797 

1849 
1846 
1874 
1890 
I8I3 
1850 
1802 
l8l I 
1788 
i860 
1899 
1820 
1899 



1882 
1763 
1771 
1806 
l8lO 
1838 



1842 
1804 
1839 
1845 
I8I2 
184O 
1837 



No. 

Henry Austin 294 

Henry Clay 338 

Henry Clinton 557 

Henry Ellsworth 466 

Henry Gaylord 482 

Henry H 308 

Henry Hill 230 

Henry Hill 402 

Henry Hill 601 

Henry Mansfield 518 

Henry Melvin 705 

Henry Richard "J22 

Henry Towner 479 

Henry Whitney 433 

Henry William 134 

Henry William 287 

Henry Wood 395 

Herbert Luzerne 610 

Hiram S 688 

Homer 148 

Homer 302 

Horace 161 

Horace Bierce 250 

Horace William . , 130 

Howard 407 

Howard 605 

Hugh Denniston 202 

Hugh Wilcox 661 

I 

Imogene Jennie 499 

Isaac 74 

Isaac 98 

Isaac 128 

Isaac Denniston 197 

Isabella 331 

J 

James Brown 5 I 5 

James Guernsey 157 

James Henry 391 

James Kelley 418 

Jane Augusta 225 

Jane Cornelia 416 

Jane Eleanor 384 



Born. 
822 

893 
685 
728 
761 
843 
817 
805 
856 



84O 

679 
8ll 
88l 

857 
863 
892 
871 
884 
832 
604 
636 
667 
717 
732 
745 
760 

765 
768 
820 
825 
835 
853 
855 
893 
788 
876 



852 
818 
821 
880 
871 
899 
828 



No. 

Jane Matilda 370 

Janet 603 

Jared 14 

Jared 31 

Jared ^ 

Jared 523 

Jared Kirtland 324 

Jared Lay 167 

Jared Robert 521 

Jared William 670 

Jeanette 459 

Jeannie Whittemore 404 

Jemima 12 

Jennette 238 

Jennie 663 

Jennie Isabelle 492 

Jennie Louise ,. . . 442 

Jennie M 740 

Jessie 462 

Jessie Florence 649 

Johanna 327 

John I 

John 3 

John 9 

John 22 

John 33 

John 42 

John 63 

John 84 

John 96 

John 150 

John 379 

John 329 

John 303 

John 525 

John 597 

John Aaron 124 

John Adams 611 

John Augustus 340 

John Avery 631 

John Brown 519 

John Denniston 201 

John Edward 193 

John Edward 536 

John Fremont 468 

John H 659 

John Harmon 258 



3io 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



Born. No. 

1816 John Harvey 242 

1846 John Harvey 454 

1863 John Harvey 428 

1866 John Harvey 461 

1819 John Henry 210 

1903 John Henry 734 

1870 John Leffingwell 553 

1808 John Matthew 159 

1885 John 684 

1820 John Scoville 215 

1802 John Spalding 196 

1814 John Williams 264 

Jonathan Lay 337 

1638 Joseph 4 

1723 Joseph 29 

1760 Joseph 53 

1767 Joseph 85 

1772 Joseph 144 

1828 Joseph 194 

1902 Joseph 696 

1821 Joseph Bailey 267 

1794 Joseph Benjamin 126 

1822 Joseph Canfield 256 

Josephine 458 

1885 Josephine 588 

1793 Julia 183 

1843 Julia 335 

1828 Julia French 204 

1836 Julia Jeanette 408 

1878 Julia Maria 612 

1810 Julia Peninah 147 

1895 Jullien Ross 660 

1855 Justin 304 

K 

i860 Kate 398 

1872 Kate Condit 582 

1894 Katharine Graves 715 

1879 Katherine Chittenden .... 701 
1899 Katherine Manville 651 

L 

1813 Laura 142 

Laura 354 

1837 Laura 390 



Born. 
862 

853 
842 

893 

898 

903 

894 
891 

739 
819 
892 



900 

895 
872 
800 
837 
899 
807 

755 
848 

853 
855 
896 
803 
889 
844 
730 
814 

763 
760 
818 
766 



1867 



1875 
1876 
1786 
1890 
1812 
1842 



No. 

Laura 438 

Laura Ada 425 

Laura Maria 248 

Leon Mahan 697 

Leslie 542 

Lester Lucius 730 

Leta Fern 727 

Leva 673 

Levi 39 

Lewis Rossiter 273 

Lewis Rossiter 714 

Lionel 596 

Lloyd Ellsworth 700 

Lloyd Hereld 630 

Lois Elma 633 

Lorenzo Bull 643 

Louisa 207 

Louisa Carrington 469 

Louise 598 

Lucius 237 

Lucy 59 

Lucy 350 

Lucy Alice 520 

Lucy Emma 488 

Lucy F 658 

Lucy Rose 236 

Luella 692 

Luella Elizabeth 478 

Luke z~ 

Luzerne 239 

Lydia 65 

Lydia Ann 47 

Lydia Maria 240 

Lynde 76 

Lynde 174 

M 

Mabel 430 

Mabel 585 

Mabel 513 

Madeline 645 

Maggie Jane 624 

Margaret 123 

Margaret 616 

Margaret Elizabeth 263 

Margaret Maria 411 



ELIOT INDEX. 



3" 



Born. 

1902 

1742 

1872 

1898 

1850 

1805 

1853 

1894 

1877 

1840 

1688 

1708 

1742 

1752 

1756 

1762 

1775 
1814 
1870 
1879 
1846 
I8l6 
1807 
I8SI 
I8I0 
1884 
1847 
1850 

I8S4 
1819 
182O 
i860 
1791 

1893 

1838 

1844 

1852 

1792 

1818 

1868 

1842 

1798 

1868 

1761 

1805 

1844 

1882 



No. 

Margaret Morse 652 

Margery 40 

Margery Byington 613 

Marguerite Cruger 709 

Maria Araminta 341 

Maria Josepha 168 

Marion Miles 490 

Marjorie E 690 

Marsha 591 

Martha 522 

Mary 

Mary 

Mary 

Mary 

Mary 

Mary 

Mary 

Mary 

Mary 

Mary 

Mary Amanda 339 

Mary Amelia 265 

Mary Ann 153 

Mary Anna 487 

Mary Anne 175 

Mary B 685 

Mary Christina 500 

Mary Cornelia 544 

Mary E 450 

Mary Elizabeth 368 

Mary Elizabeth 255 

Mary Elizabeth 568 

Mary Ely 125 

Mary Forbes 617 

Mary Jane 420 



Born. 
1892 
l880 
1676 
1879 
1900 
1846 
I8I2 
I8I5 
1793 



No. 



15 
18^ 

41 

49 

58 
105 
100 

191 

357 
681 



1770 
1797 
1889 
1725 
1757 
1758 
1767 
1819 
1810 
1806 
1728 
1864 
1877 



1801 
1832 
1889 
1872 



1893 



Maude 693 

May Easter Leffingwell 
Mehitabel 



556 
10 



Mildred 535 

Mildred 

Milton , 

Miriam Jerusha 208 

Miriam Jerusha 209 

Mortimer Smithson 185 



695 

524 



N 

Nancy 78 

Nancy T 86 

Narene 595 

Nathan 30 

Nathan ...... 60 

Nathan 61 

Nathan 67 

Nathan 149 

Nathan Augustus 154 

Nathan G 158 

Nathaniel 35 

Nellie 4?7 

Nellie E 680 

Nellie Pratt 707 

Nelson Alger 724 

Nelson James 221 

Nelson James 382 

Nora 627 

Norma A 496 



Olan 642 

Ollie Grace 628 



Mary Jane 5i6 l8l9 Oscar Fitzallan .'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 325 



Mary Janette 300 

Mary Lewis 165 

Mary Lewis 291 

Mary Lulu 608 

Mary Murdock 322 

MaryWorthingtonWatkins 140 

Mary Wyllys 434 

Matthew 64 

Matthew Griswold 152 

Matthew Griswold 313 

Maude 587 



1846 Oscar H 298 



1856 Paul 405 

1888 Paul Bodley 636 

1899 Paul McGilvray 732 

1870 Peter W 530 

1818 Philazania Waltham 346 

1765 Phoebe 66 

1886 Phoebe Elizabeth 704 



312 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



Born. 
1886 
1895 
1874 
1690 

1733 
1815 
1768 

1834 
1894 
1762 
1764 
l8lO 

1854 
1773 
1813 
1752 
1799 
I78l 
1830 

1834 
1846 
1867 

1839 
1868 

1839 
1876 
l88l 
1772 
1776 
1791 
1826 
1829 
1883 
1886 
1888 

i860 



1879 
1641 
I7l6 
1764 
1770 
1770 



R 

No. 

Rachel E 686 

Raymond Keifer 637 

Raymond S 497 

Rebecca 16 

Rebecca 37 

Rebecca 156 

Reuben no 

Reuben Thomas 383 

Reuben Will 72.3 

Richard 73 

Richard 75 

Richard 170 

Richard Harreton 343 

Richard Jackson 70 

Richard Jackson, Jr 163 

Richard Rosewell 44 

Richard Samuel 220 

Robert 92 

Robert 205 

Robert 328 

Robert 349 

Robert 356 

Robert Justice 332 

Robert Samuel 489 

Rosalia 319 

Rosalia Adele 559 

Roy G 505 

Rufus 79 

Ruth 114 

Ruth 182 

Ruth 245 

Ruth 377 

Ruth 593 

Ruth 506 

Ruth Forbes 615 

Ruth May 638 

Ruth Rossiter 574 

S 

Salome Harris 647 

Samuel 5 

Samuel 26 

Samuel 106 

Samuel 69 

Samuel 97 



Born. 
1805 
1844 
1838 
I8l8 
184O 
1846 
1858 

1753 
1819 
1780 
1824 

1875 
1662 

1750 

I75i 
1772 

1775 
1776 
1808 
1 841 
1849 
1864 
1814 
1821 
1840 

1845 
1790 
1814 
1839 
1855 
1842 
1850 
1902 
1858 

i8S9 
1812 
1817 
1812 
1848 
1826 

1873 
1896 



1867 



No. 

Samuel 162 

Samuel 393 

Samuel Arnold 409 

Samuel Harvey 254 

Samuel Hurd 276 

Samuel Hurd 278 

Samuel J 452 

Samuel Smithson 50 

Samuel Waldo 273 

Samuel Williams 12a 

Samuel Worcester 268 

Sara Genevieve 555 

Sarah 8 

Sarah 21 

Sarah 43 

Sarah 57 

Sarah 112 

Sarah 80 

Sarah 71 

Sarah 129 

Sarah 444 

Sarah 279 

Sarah 309 

Sarah Amanda 252 

Sarah Ann 375 

Sarah Clark 421 

Sarah Elizabeth 286 

Sarah Ethelinda 131 

Sarah Hart 233 

Sarah Johanna 334 

Sarah Mariah 573 

Sarah Westcott 284 

Sidney 394 

Sidney Morse 736 

Son 552 

Son 306 

Susan 190 

Susan 192 

Susan Ann 180 

Susan Elizabeth 549 

Susan McKnown 203 

Susan Pratt 554 

Susan Rebecca 708 

T 

Theodore 321 

Thomas Nelson 580 



ELIOT INDEX. 



313 



Born. No. 

1736 Timothy 38 

1772 Timothy 115 

1773 Timothy 99 



U 

1896 Ursa May 728 



1887 
1847 



1858 
1871 

1823 
1883 
1853 
1869 
1755 
1755 
1757 
1875 
1902 
1826 



1868 
1804 
1848 
1887 
1814 
1823 



Verna 626 

Virginia Augusta 431 

W 

Waldo E 526 

Walter B 678 

Ward 397 

Whitney 244 

Whitney 537 

Wilimena Hannah 566 

Will Nelson 577 



Will 
Will 
Will 
Will 
Will 
Will 
Will 
Will 
Will 
Will 
Will 
Will 
Will 



am 
am 
am 
am 
am 



5i 

. . . '. 104 

46 

583 

725 

am Aaron 257 

am Augustus 301 

am D 529 

am Farrand 151 

am Farrand 314 

am Farrand 514 

am Frederic 366 

am H 378 



Born. 
844 
823 
853 
803 
850 
78l 
824 
850 
862 
872 
896 
893 
854 
834 

773 
810 
824 
813 
849 
782 

73* 
779 
858 
801 



1773 
1775 



No. 

William Henderson 296 

William Henry 216 

William Henry 550 

William Hillhouse 145 

William Hoffman 288 

William Horace 211 

William Horace 371 

William Horace 564 

William Horace 561 

William Jared 674 

William Jared 742 

William Leander 706 

William Nathaniel 570 

William Peek 388 

William Rose 116 

William Rossiter 364 

William Rufus 178 

William Sidney 260 

William Sidney, Jr 472 

William Worthington 121 

Wyllys 36 

Wyllys 117 

Wyllys 406 

Wyllys Henry 228 

Y 

Youngs 88 

Youngs 89 

Z 

Zella Olivia 635 



INDEX OF THOSE WHOSE NAMES ARE OTHER THAN 

ELIOT 



No. 
410 



Page. 



Adams, Emma Carrie 192 

402 Adams, Helen Gertrude 190 

233 Adams, Louisa 123 

93 Adams, Sarah Marie 72 

203 Airey, Thomas A 1 1 1 

535 Alexander, Charles F 181 

86 Alford, Mr 71 

263 Allen, Edwin Lee 133 

572 Allen, Eva Albertha 206 

419 Ailing, Hilda Loper 164 

419 Ailing, Wilbur Austin 164 

59 Allison, Agnes McGaughey 63 

59 Allison, Dwight Moody 63 

59 Allison, Edward J 63 

59 Allison, James 63 

59 Allison, Margaret M 63 

59 Allison, Ruth 63 

59 Allison, Thomas 63 

59 Alston, Agnes M 60 

504 Amerman, Philip M 178 

504 Amerman, Richard Elliott 178 

504 Amerman, Robert Philip 178 

100 Amery, Delia yy 

iy6 Ancona, Carrie 100 

176 Ancona, John F 100 

176 Ancona, John F 100 

176 Ancona, Mary A 100 

445 Anderson, Frank 169 

123 Andrews, Howard 86 

123 Andrews, Lorrin Claudius 86 

123 Andrews, Louisa Alcott 86 

123 Andrews, Mabel Pugsley 86 

123 Andrews, Samuel C 86 

40 Armstrong, Ella 48 

348 Armstrong, Evelyn 181 

325 Armstrong, Hannah 179 

17 Armstrong, Joseph 68 



No. p a ge. 

93 Armstrong, Lydia A 75 

59 Ashcraft, Adeline 59 

59 Ashcraft, Elbert G 59 

59 Ashcraft, Welton 59 

66 Ashe, Anna Caroline 66 

66 Ashe, Charlotte Elizabeth 66 

66 Ashe, Eliot Mitchell 66 

66 Ashe, Margaret Lloyd 66 

66 Ashe, Mary Sybil 66 

66 Ashe, Richard Henry 66 

66 Ashe, Richard J 66 

66 Ashe, Samuel Richard 66 

66 Ashe, Sophia Evelyn 66 

140 Ashley, Chester 91 

140 Ashley, Chester Grafton 91 

140 Ashley, Chester Pomeroy 91 

140 Ashley, Frances Ann 91 

140 Ashley, Frances Ann 91 

140 Ashley, Francis Freeman 91 

140 Ashley, Harriet E 91 

140 Ashley, Henry Charles 91 

140 Ashley, Mary Van Alstyne 91 

140 Ashley, Mary Van Alstyne 91 

140 Ashley, William E 91 

140 Ashley, William Eliot 91, 96 

346 Atlee, Margaret Hoff 148 

22 Atwater, Lydia 48 

187 Auger, Daniel C 105 

200 Austin, Charles 109 

255 Austin, Charles Herschel 129 

200 Austin, Charles L 109 

200 Austin, Edward 109 

200 Austin, Ellen 109 

252 Austin, George 128 

52 Austin, Gloriana 89 

255 Austin, James C 129 

255 Austin, Mildred Imogene 129 

255 Austin, William Sylvester 129 



INDEX OF NAMES OTHER THAN ELIOT. 



315 



No. 
IOI 

IOI 
IOI 

526 

368 
124 

50 
173 

93 

93 

93 

93 

93 

93 

93 

114 

114 

236 

443 

93 

443 

236 

236 

114 

93 

93 

93 

106 

66 

66 

93 

93 

93 

66 

114 

93 

93 

93 

59 

93 

93 

93 

93 

93 

93 

93 



B 

Fage. 

Babcock, Abel 77 

Babcock, Edward 77 

Babcock, Mary 77 

Bacon, Cynthia 180 

Bacon, George W 153 

Bailey, Joanna 132 

Bailey, Sarah 86 

Bailey, Viola E 99 

Baker, Frances Lamira 74 

Baker, Helen Elizabeth 74 

Baker, Julian Benton 74 

Baker, Maria Antoinette 74 

Baker, Marsena 74 

Baker, Susan Eliot 74 

Baker, Winfield Scott 74 

Baldw 

Baldwin 

Baldwin 

Baldwin 

Baldwin 

Baldwin 

Baldw 

Baldw 

Baldw 

Baldw 

Baldw 

Baldw 

Baldw 

Baldw 

Baldw 

Baldw 

Baldw 

Baldw 

Baldw 

Baldw 



Catherine Lansing 83 

David 83 

Eda L. J 124 

Eliot Harrison 168 

Fannie L 75 

Henry H 168 



124 
124 
83 

75 
75 



Henry L 

Flenry L 

Henry Van Schaick 

Jesse A 

Jesse R 

Louise 75 

Mary Butler 116 

Mary E 66 

Nathan C 66 

Norman L 75 

Storrs 75 

Theodore W 75 

Willard N 66 

William Ward 83 

Ball, Edward J 75 

Ball, Edward Judson 75 

Ball, Eliot Augustine 75 

Ball, Elizabeth 60 

Ball, George Nelson 75 

Ball, Guy J 75 

Ball, Harrie C 75 

Ball, Harrison Cleon 75 

Ball, Ivan Horton 75 

Ball, Julia Ann 75 

Ball, Julian Nelson 75 



No. Page. 

93 Ball, Lillian 75 

93 Ball, Lloyd Benton 75 

93 Ball, Lucy Ann 72, 

93 Ball, Maggie S 75 

93 Ball, Nelson 75 

93 Ball, Sherwood Salle 75 

93 Ball, William George 75 

19 Banks, Joseph 39 

238 Barkley, Eugene Robinson 125 

238 Barkley, Frank 125 

238 Barkley, Frank Owens 125 

200 Barnard, Archibald 109 

200 Barnard, Charles A 109 

200 Barnard, Elodie 109 

200 Barnard, Edmund 109 

200 Barnard, Edward 109 

12 Barnard, Elizabeth 31 

200 Barnard, Ellen 109 

200 Barnard, Fanny A 109 

200 Barnard, Juliette 109 

200 Barnard, Kate 109 

200 Barnard, Madelaine 109 

200 Barnard, Mary 109 

153 Barney, Clara Louise 94 

153 Barney, Ethel Wyllys 94 

153 Barney, Hiram Howard 93 

153 Barney, Howard 94 

153 Barney, John Eliot 94 

153 Barney, Mary Louisa 93 

153 Barney, Mildred Griswold 94 

153 Barney, Roderick Douglas 93 

153 Barney, Sarah Adele 94 

59 Barnhart, Allan Wright 61 

59 Barnhart, Elizabeth 61 

59 Barnhart, William Howard 61 

59 Barnhart, Williamson Learning . . 61 

40 Bartholomew, Bennett 48 

40 Bartholomew, Eliot 48 

40 Bartholomew, Harvey Clare .... 48 

40 Bartholomew, Lucius 48 

115 Bartholomew, Lydia 124 

237 Bartholomew, Mary Jane 163 

83 Bartholomew, Worthington W. . . 70 

219 Bartlett, Caroline Ruth 117 

57 Bartlett, Eleanor Hamilton 56 

368 Bartlett, Ellen Dodd 153 

57 Bartlett, Emily Eliot 56 



316 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



No. Page. 

57 Bartlett, Frank Hamilton 56 

219 Bartlett, John 117 

219 Bartlett, John Hart 117 

368 Bartlett, John Knowlton 152 

84 Bartlett, Sarah 102 

47 Bassett, John 52 

47 Bassett, William Eliot 52 

59 Beach, Eliza Darling 60 

59 Beach, Sarah 58 

236 Becca, America 124 

93 Bedell, Arthur G 73 

93 Bedell, John Sym 73 

290 Beebe, Anna Mary Ashley 139 

290 Beebe, Augusta Gilbert 139 

290 Beebe, Cora Frances 139 

290 Beebe, Eliza Clarissa 138 

290 Beebe, Emma Clarissa 139 

290 Beebe, Frangois G 139 

290 Beebe, Hartwell 138 

290 Beebe, Mary Frances 139 

290 Beebe, Roswell 138 

290 Beebe, Roswell 138 

280 Beers, Cyrenius Eliot 135 

280 Beers, William H 135 

268 Belcher, Lucy Ann 176 

45 Benedict, Aaron 50 

45 Benedict, Amelia Caroline 50 

45 Benedict, Charles 50 

45 Benedict, Charlotte Ann 50 

45 Benedict, Charlotte Buckingham. 50 

45 Benedict, Cornelia Johnson 50 

45 Benedict, Frances Jeanette 50 

45 Benedict, George William 50 

45 Benedict, Mary Lyman 50 

125 Benson, Charlotte 88 

125 Benson, Henry 88 

125 Benson, Henry 88 

125 Benson, Mary Caroline 88 

125 Benson, William 88 

139 Bent, Dorcas 90 

93 Benton, Abigail Lindley 73 

93 Benton, Abigail Lindley 73 

93 Benton, Abigail Lindley 73 

93 Benton, Abner Ely 73 

93 Benton, Ackerson Eliot Armstrong 76 

93 Benton, Anna Eliot 73 

93 Benton, Benjamin 73 



No. 




93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


567 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


244 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


567 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 


93 


Benton, 



Page. 

Charles Elliott 74 

Charles Henry 73 

Charlotte Elizabeth 73 

Cornelia Amanda 74 

Daniel 72 

Daniel 73 

Daniel Smithson 72 

Edward Emerson 73 

Elihu Hill 73 

Eliot Herbert 186 

Elizabeth 74 

Elizabeth Sara 76 

Ellen M 72 

Elliott H 72 

Emma Elvina 166 

Emma Virginia 73 

Experience Hempstead . . 74 

Fanny Elizabeth 73, 76 

Fanny Ledyard 73 

Fanny Ledyard 74 

Frances May 73 

George D 73 

George Robert 75 

Hadley George 76 

Harriet Eliot 76 

Harriette Arabella 73 

Herbert L 186 

Herbert Lester 74 

Herburt Winfield 73 

Jared T. Julian 73 

Jared Taintor 73 

Jennette Elizabeth 73 

Jessie Augusta 74 

John Eliot 75 

Joseph Augustine 74 

Joseph Augustine 75 

Joseph Augustine 76 

Julia Ida 73 

Laura Ely 74 

Ledyard Ely 73 

Lucilia Elizabeth 75 

Lucy Manuela 73 

Lydia Griswold 74 

Mary Fannie 75 

Mary Frances Eliot .... 75 

Mary Lord 74 

Mary Olive 74 



INDEX OF NAMES OTHER THAN ELIOT. 



317 



No. Page. 

93 Benton, Matthew Henry 73 

93 Benton, Reuben Howard 74 

93 Benton, Robert George 75 

567 Benton, Ruth Elizabeth 186 

93 Benton, Sarah Fowler 74 

93 Benton, Silas Wright 76 

93 Benton, Urban Sherwood Wil ford 73 

93 Benton, Urbane Wilford 73 

93 Benton, Willie P 73 

93 Benton, Youngs Eliot 73 

93 Benton, Youngs Elliott 74 

93 Benton, Youngs Elliott 74 

112 Betts, Charles Scoville 83 

112 Betts, Charles Wyllys 83 

112 Betts, Frederic Henry 83 

112 Betts, Frederic Holbrook 83 

112 Betts, Frederic J 82 

109 Betts, Laura 82 

112 Betts, Louis 83 

109 Betts, Maria E 82 

112 Betts, Mary Eliot 83 

112 Betts, Mary Eliot 83 

109 Betts, Preserved 82 

112 Betts, Sarah Eliot 83 

112 Betts, Wyllys Rosseter 83 

8 Bicker, Sarah 21 

120 Bierce, Sarah 127 

123 Bigelow, Florence Jerome 87 

123 Bigelow, George Fletcher 87 

123 Bigelow, Jerome L 87 

123 Bigelow, Josephine H 87 

123 Bigelow, Lelia Elliott 87 

242 Bills, Ann Eliza 165 

77 Bingham, William 67 

291 Binz, Zora 139 

21 Birge, Anna 39 

21 Birge, Cyrus 39 

375 Blackman, Abby Beers 154 

59 Blague, Eleanor M 61 

59 Blaine, Augusta M 63 

59 Blaine, John Eliot 63 

59 Blaine, John Rogers 63 

59 Blaine, Julia F 63 

59 Blaine, Roger Eliot 63 

59 Blaine, Sabrina Swift 63 

291 Bleckle, Teresa 140 

209 Bliss, Justin A 115 



No. Page. 

80 Boardman, 69 

464 Bodley, Gertrude 196 

59 Boland, Gertrude Woodward ... 62 

59 Boland, Margaret Wells 62 

59 Boland, Ruth Wells 62 

59 Boland, William A 62 

57 Bolles, Asa M 56 

57 Bolles, David Huntington 56 

57 Bolles, Ellen Mansfield 56 

8 Bolles, John 20 

8 Bolles, John 20 

8 Bolles, John 20 

8 Bolles, Joshua 20 

8 Bolles, Mary - 20 

8 Bolles, Samuel 20 

8 Bolles, William 20 

385 Bond, Eldora Palmer 157 

501 Bonnell, Frank Oliver 177 

501 Bonnell, H. Elliott 177 

233 Bowditch, Annie R 123 

21 Bowen, Clarence Winthrop 39 

21 Bowen, Henry C. 39 

21 Bowen, John Eliot 39 

44 Boyd, Douglas 163 

44 Boyd, James Franklin 163 

80 Bradley, Augustus Eliot 102 

80 Bradley, Augustus Eliot 102 

80 Bradley, Elisha Kirtland 102 

80 Bradley, Fernando Wood 102 

80 Bradley, Frank Eliot 102 

80 Bradley, Gertrude Elizabeth .... 102 

80 Bradley, Hattie Eliot 102 

80 Bradley, Hiram 101 

80 Bradley, Lucy Maria 102 

73 Brainard, Sophia A 99 

383 Brainerd, Charles W 156 

383 Brainerd, Eva M 156 

383 Brainerd, Genevieve R 156 

462 Brattin, Bernice May 172 

462 Brattin, Clem C 172 

462 Brattin, George Elliott 172 

461 Brattin, Jennie Belle 196 

462 Brattin, Ralph Waldo 172 

462 Brattin, Sarah Blanche 172 

94 Brenner, Mattie May 7& 

4 Brenton, Sarah 27 

65 Brinsmade, Daniel Eliot 65 



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DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



No. 



Page. I No. 
64 66 



65 Brinsmade, Daniel Sherman .... 

65 Brinsmade, Frederick Abner .... 65 

65 Brinsmade, Herman Hine 65 

65 Brinsmade, Lydia Clarina 65 

65 Brinsmade, Rebecca 65 

65 Brinsmade, Sherman Mitchell ... 65 

152 Brintnall, Mary Ann 143 

195 Brisbane, Mary Catherine 108 

330 Brockway, May 144 

330 Brockway, Seth 144 

43 Brooks, Caroline Frances SO 

43 Brooks, John Wilson 50 

227 Brooks, Julia A 119 

43 Brooks, Margaret Perkins 50 

43 Brooks, Mary Hoar St. Clair.... 50 

43 Brooks, Nathaniel Wilson 50 

291 Brown, Charles C 139 

478 Brown, Charles F. W 174 

187 Brown, Eliot Clark 105 

478 Brown, Elizabeth Millet 174 

12 Brown, Ellen Janette 3 1 

94 Brown, George L 76 

151 Brown, Hannah Maria 142 

369 Brown, Harriet Reeves 184 

187 Brown, Harvey G 105 

255 Brown, Jesse Alfred 130 

187 Brown, Lillian Clark 106 

478 Brown, Louisa Towner 174 

478 Brown, Luella Belle 174 

187 Brown, Mary 106 

324 Brown, Mary Jane 179 

187 Brown, Ruth 106 

187 Brown, Sara Hale 105 

187 Brown, Sara Hale 105 

90 Brown, Sarah 72 

213 Brown, Sarah 155 

240 Browning, Anna Lee 125 

240 Browning, Connie May 125 

240 Browning, James Jackson 125 

253 Buck, Byron T 129 

465 Buck, Gertrude 172 

253 Buck, Glen W 129 

66 Buckingham, Earle 66 

66 Buckingham. Edwin Wheeler ... 66 

66 Buckingham, Elnathan Mitchell.. 66 

66 Buckingham, Francis S. 66 

66 Buckingham, Jennie W 66 



11 
152 
241 

333 

18 
468 
59 
40 
180 
467 
439 



139 
139 
139 
139 
139 
139 
139 
139 
139 
139 
139 
139 
139 
139 
139 
139 
139 
139 
139 
454 
300 
300 
300 
300 
117 
284 
446 
■146 
446 
446 
347 
139 



Page. 

Buckingham, Walter B 66 

Bulkley, Emeline C 29 

Bulkley, Francis H 143 

Bunnell, Ann Augusta 164 

Burke, James A 145 

Burr, Isaac 39 

Burrows, Olie 197 

Burt, Adoniram Judson 62 

Burwell, Clara 48 

Bushnell, Alice Elizabeth 102 

Buss, Elizabeth M 197 

Byrd, Lucy Carter 194 

C 

Cabanne, Arthur Lee 90 

Cabanne, Charles Gratiot 90 

Cabanne, Emily Maffit 90 

Cabanne, Fanny Mitchell 90 

Cabanne, Frances Goode 90 

Cabanne, J. Goode 90 

Cabanne, John Charles 90 

Cabanne, John Pierre 90 

Cabanne, Joseph Charless 90 

Cabanne, Julia Goode 90 

Cabanne, Lucian Duteil 90 

Cabanne, Martha Mitchell 90 

Cabanne, Mary Mitchell 90 

Cabanne, Sarpy Carr 90 

Cabanne, Sarpy Carr 90 

Cabanne, Susan Mitchell 90 

Cabanne, Virginia Eliot 90 

Cabanne, Virginia Eliot 90 

Cabanne, William Christy 90 

Call, Matilda 195 

Callahan, Cora M. B 141 

Callahan, Elijah 141 

Callahan, Mary Ethel 141 

Callahan, William H 141 

Camp, Lucy 127 

Carlin, John Wilberforce 137 

Carmack, Alice Caroline 170 

Carmack. Amy 170 

Carmack, Anna Marie 170 

Carmack. Wiley A 170 

Carpenter, Annie 180 

Carr, Ann Maria 90 



INDEX OF NAMES OTHER THAN ELIOT. 



3 J 9 



No. Page. 

139 Carr, Charles Eliot 90 

139 Carr, Cornelia Chiles 90 

94 Carr, Elizabeth Anna 76 

139 Carr, Virginia Eliot 90 

139 Carr, William Chiles 89 

139 Carr, William Henry 90 

260 Carrington, Louisa 173 

93 Case, George E 75 

93 Case, George F 75 

200 Cassidy, Clinton 109 

200 Cassidy, Frances 109 

200 Cassidy, J. P 109 

125 Cazzade, Annie 87 

161 Chamberlain, Hannah 144 

20 Chandler, Thomas 39 

93 Chapin, Alice 74 

62 Chaplin, Rosa Schley 64 

264 Chapman, Blanche Smith 174 

83 Chapman, Julia 70 

445 Chase, Benjamin 169 

445 Chase, Kittie F 169 

445 Chase, Marcia 169 

8 Checkley, Lydia 20 

40 Chidsey, Josephine 48 

550 Chittenden, Nellie 205 

48 Chouteau, Maxy 54 

93 Church, Alicia 75 

41 Churchill, Jesse 49 

41 Churchill, T. G 49 

41 Churchill, William Elliott 49 

123 Clark, Adelaide 86 

187 Clark, Amanda Ann 105 

187 Clark, Amanda Frisbie 105 

187 Clark, Bert Opsie 105 

613 Clark, Bradford Latham 193 

59 Clark, Carl Thomson 59 

187 Clark, Caroline Frances 105 

187 Clark, Caroline North 105 

187 Clark, Charles Elliott 105 

187 Clark, Charles Goodwin 104, 105 

408 Clark, Charles Henry 162 

59 Clark, Clara Helena 59 

59 Clark, Clarina H 59 

93 Clark, Clarinda 75 

613 Clark, Douglass 193 

613 Clark, Edgar Luzerne 193 

59 Clark, Edith Margaret 59 



No. Page. 

59 Clark, Edward Logan 59 

408 Clark, Eliot Albert 162 

174 Clark, Emma 147 

613 Clark, Esther Eliot 193 

187 Clark, Eugene Loper 105 

59 Clark, Frances Marguerite 59 

613 Clark, Gazelle Nettleton 193 

77 Clark, George 68 

77 Clark, 68 

77 Clark, George 68 

187 Clark, George Erasmus 105 

187 Clark, Gertrude Rosalin 105 

59 Clark, Gertrude S 59 

148 Clark, Hannah 141 

408 Clark, Hiram H 162 

457 Clark, John 171 

613 Clark, John Asa 193 

613 Clark, John Buckley 193 

457 Clark, John Carl Eliot 171 

59 Clark, Joseph B 59 

187 Clark, Joseph Eliot 106 

408 Clark, Julia Ann 162 

613 Clark, Kenneth Woodruff 193 

59 Clark, Laura Austria 59 

59 Clark, Laura Frances 59 

187 Clark, Lenora Naomi 105 

125 Clark, Lizzie 87 

59 Clark, Louise Thompson 62 

408 Clark, Luella Julia 162 

457 Clark, Maggie Myrtle 171 

59 Clark, Mary 61 

187 Clark, Mary May 105 

59 Clark, Philo 58 

187 Clark, Robert Eliot 105 

1 16 Clark, Sarah 126 

150 Clark, Sarah 141 

59 Clark, Seth Swift 59 

187 Clark, Sylvanus 104 

187 Clark, Sylvanus Henry 105 

2 Clark, Thomas 16 

187 Clark, William Henry 105 

187 Clark, Wilma Eliot 105 

139 Clendennin, Anne Eliot 90 

139 Clendennin, Eliza 90 

139 Clendennin, Ellen 90 

139 Clendennin, Mildred 90 

139 Clendennin, Washington Kerr ... 90 



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DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



No. 
139 
334 



224 
224 

83 
220 

93 
140 
140 
140 
140 
140 
140 
140 
140 
421 
420 
421 
421 
421 
421 
421 
187 
187 
255 
255 
255 
255 

11 

325 
21 

173 

*73 

251 

40 

40 

559 

77 

40 

559 

40 

125 

59 

59 

528 



Page. 

Clendennin, William Austin 90 

Cline, Lyman S 146 

Coale, George Oliver 21 

Coale, William Edward 21 

Coan, Abraham 1 18 

Coan, Grace Eliot 118 

Coan, Sarah 70 

Coates, Elizabeth 156 

Cobb, Nelson 74 

Cockrill, Annie 91 

Cockrill, Ashley 91 

Cockrill, Emmet 91 

Cockrill, Freeman 91 

Cockrill, Garland 91 

Cockrill, Mary 91 

Cockrill, Sterling Robertson .... 91 

Cockrill, Sterling Robertson ..... 91 

Coe, Blanche Eleanor 165 

Coe, Charles 164 

Coe, Eliot Halleck 165 

Coe, Frederick J , 164 

Coe, Harry McDonald 165 

Coe, Henry Eliot 165 

Coe, Marian Eliot 165 

Coffin, Florence 105 

Coffin, Orville 105 

Cole, Ora 130 

Cole, Sherman 130 

Cole, Wavel 130 

Cole, Wilma 130 

Collins, Minta Lament 29 

Colvin, Harriet E. Rathbun 179 

Conant, Hezekiah 39 

Concly, Elliott Raymond 99 

Conely, John C 99 

Connor, James 128 

Cook, Bishop 47 

Cook, Charles 47 

Cook, Dorothy Elizabeth 183 

Cook, Ellen 69 

Cook, Jane 47 

Cook, Joseph H 183 

Cook, Martin 48 

Cook, Noah 88 

Cooley, Elihu 62 

Cooley, Elizabeth Swift 62 

Coons, Minnie M 204 



No. 

59 

59 

59 

59 

66 

247 

376 

418 

262 

40 

40 

40 

93 

93 

93 

93 

8 

302 

43 

43 

43 

610 

142 

142 

142 

142 

142 

142 

142 

142 

142 

233 

233 

248 

248 

248 

248 

248 

248 

248 



59 
100 
100 
100 



Page. 

Corwin, Edith Swift 62 

Corwin, James Byron 62 

Corwin, Margaret Elisabeth .... 62 

Corwin, Walter James 62 

Cotteren, Charles 66 

Coulter, Jane 168 

Cowdrey, Mary J. Fenn 187 

Cowles, Emma R 193 

Cowles, Henry 132 

Crafts, Francis Goodyear 48 

Crafts, Marion Francis 48 

Crafts, Mary 48 

Crandall, Floyd G 74 

Crandall, Lottie 74 

Crandall, Lulu 74 

Crandall, Theodore 74 

Crane, George F 21 

Crawford, Fannie 178 

Cressy, Edward Potter 50 

Cressy, Edward Wilson 50 

Cressy, Frances Brooks 50 

Cring, Clara 208 

Cross, Benjamin 92 

Cross, Benjamin 92 

Cross, Edward 92 

Cross, Edward 92 

Cross, Frank 92 

Cross, James 92 

Cross, Mary Frances 92 

Cross, Nancy 92 

Cross, Theodore 92 

Cunningham, Edward 123 

Cunningham, Edward 123 

Cutter, Anna Ladd 127 

Cutter, Eliot 127 

Cutter, Guilford Eliot 127 

Cutter, Laura Eliot 127 

Cutter, Miriam 127 

Cutter, Ralph Eliot 127 

Cutter, Ralph Ladd 127 

D 

Damon, Frances L 61 

Daniels, Harriet McDonab 77 

Daniels, Henry Everett 77 

Daniels, Janet Williams 77 



INDEX OF NAMES OTHER THAN ELIOT. 



321 



No. Page. 

100 Daniels, Williams 77 

313 Darling, Martha 142 

99 Darrow, Mary 77 

90 Davis, Annie Cornelia 72 

59 Davis, Annie M 60 

90 Davis, Elizabeth Griffing 72 

90 Davis, George S 72 

375 Davis, Hattie Benton 154 

90 Davis, Henry Fowler 72 

142 Davis, Laura 92 

375 Davis, Lydia Lucretia 154 

186 Davis, Robert E 104 

94 Davison, Lulu 76 

325 Davison, Maggie 179 

259 Dawson, Allen 131 

259 Dawson, Harriet 131 

259 Dawson, John William 131 

259 Dawson, Mary 131 

259 Dawson, Thomas 131 

12 Day, Abigail 30 

249 Day, Sarah 169 

25 de Forest, Caroline 45 

291 De Lassus, Caroline Emily 139 

291 De Lassus, Elliott L 139 

291 De Lassus, Leon 139 

291 De Lassus, Louis C 139 

291 De Lassus, Mary Clara 140 

291 De Lassus, Mary L 139 

291 De Lassus, Mary Leon 140 

291 De Lassus, Mary Louise 140 

291 De Lassus, Mary Matilda 139 

577 Demoline, Bertha Ema 207 

92 Denniston, Rachel 108 

517 Dewitt, Edson Dorr 179 

517 Dewitt, Gerald Eliot 179 

47 Dewitt, John 52 

517 Dewitt, John Lamont 179 

S"i7 Dewitt, Mary Blanche 179 

57 Dickerman, George S 56 

94 Dike, Josephine Helen 76 

284 Dill, James E 137 

590 Dodd, Dorothy 190 

590 Dodd, J. N 190 

200 Doherty, C. J 109 

374 Dorman, Harriet Louisa 154 

255 Dotts, A. J 130 

255 Dotts, Carl Milton 130 



No. Page. 

255 Dotts, Earl Elliott 130 

255 Dotts, Edna Rebecca 130 

255 Dotts, Eva Lena 130 

255 Dotts, George Elmer 130 

255 Dotts, James W 130 

255 Dotts, John 130 

255 Dotts, John D 130 

255 Dotts, Leon Elmo 130 

255 Dotts, Lois Esther 130 

255 Dotts, Mary E 130 

255 Dotts, Mary Ethel 130 

255 Dotts, William Elmer 130 

59 Drake, Mary L 59 

90 Dudley, Charles Newton 72 

77 Dudley, Harriet 67 

186 Dudley, Jennie L 104 

186 Dudley, Jennie M 104 

16 Dudley, William 33, 34, 35 

486 Dunham, Harry Nevins 175 

125 Dunning, Amelia Jane 87 

125 Dunning, Ann Eliza 88 

125 Dunning, Asa 88 

125 Dunning, Edward Eliot 87 

125 Dunning, Festus 87 

125 Dunning, Frances Louisa 87 

125 Dunning, George Stephen 87 

125 Dunning, Lewis 88 

125 Dunning, Mary Jane 88 

125 Dunning, William 87 

286 Durland, Grace Eliot 138 

286 Durland, Charles Oscar 138 

12 Dutton, Mary E 31 

139 Dyer, Alice Maud 90 

139 Dyer, Beverly Allen 90 

l 39 Dyer, Beverly Carr 90 

J 39 Dyer, Charles Austin 90 

139 Dyer, Charles Austin 90 

139 Dyer, Charles Austin 90 

: 39 Dyer, Cornelia Carr 90 

!39 Dyer, Cornelian Trevilian 90 

139 Dyer, Feo 90 

21 Dyer, Grace 39 

139 Dyer, Irl Bickley 90 

139 Dyer, Jane Rankin 90 

139 Dyer, John Rankin 90 

139 Dyer, Marguerite Simmons 90 

139 Dyer, Nancy Eliot 90 



322 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



No. Page. 

139 Dyer, Samuel 90 

139 Dyer, Thomas Bickley 90 

T 39 Dyer, Thomas Bickley 90 

T 39 Dyer, Thomas Eliot 90 

J 39 Dyer, Virginia Carr 90 

139 Dyer, William Carr 90 

139 Dyer, William Cornelius 90 

94 Dygert, Sarah Jane 76 

174 Dyke, Jane 147 



E 

21 Eaton, Harriet 39 

21 Eaton, John 39 

21 Eaton, John Eliot 39 

21 Eaton, Joshua 39 

21 Eaton, Joshua 39 

21 Eaton, Lydia Wolcott 39 

21 Eaton, Mary 39 

21 Eaton, Robah 39 

21 Eaton, Samuel 39 

21 Eaton, Sarah 39 

21 Eaton, Sarah 39 

125 Edgington, Edna 67 

254 Edwards, Jane Smiley 170 

12 Edwards, Lucy 30, 31 

59 Elder, Electa Phelps 61 

125 Ellbreeder, August 87 

125 Ellbreeder, Daisy 87 

281 Ellinger, Marshall B. S 137 

281 Ellinger, William Elliott 137 

424 Ellis, Elias 165 

424 Ellis, Jessamine 166 

86 Ellis, Mr 71 

49 Ely, Christopher 55 

101 Ely, Eliot Warner 78 

51 Ely, Ethelinda 88 

34 Ely, Hannah 76 

101 Ely, John Eliot 78 

101 Ely, Joseph Niles 78 

93" Ely, Mary Anne 73 

101 Ely, Similias Brockway 78 

566 Emerson, Justin Edwards 185 

566 Emerson, Paul Eliot 186 

566 Emerson, Philip Law 186 

566 Emerson, Ralf Dc Pomeroy 186 



No Page. 

463 Emerson, Sophronia 196 

307 Emigh, Viola 178 

173 Emmons, Frank Jewett 99 



F 

291 Faherty, Blanche C 140 

291 Faherty, Iola B 140 

291 Faherty, Leon P 140 

291 Faherty, Linette J 140 

291 Faherty, Mary M 139 

291 Faherty, William P 139 

291 Faherty, William W 140 

87 Fairchild, Betsey 106 

no Fairchild, Grace 117 

561 Fairchild, Mary J 184 

85 Fairchild, Nancy 103 

176 Fane, Edward F 100 

362 Fanning, Rosalia A 183 

64 Farrand, Mary Ann 93 

59 Farrington, Edward Chandler ... 62 

59 Farrington, Eliot Griggs 62 

59 Farrington, Harvey 62 

59 Farrington, Harvey 62 

59 Farrington, Helen 62 

191 Faster, Emma 106 

165 Fatherly, Richard 96 

165 Fatherly, Ward 96 

165 Fatherly, William Ashley 96 

165 Fatherly, Worthen Eliot 96 

290 Faust, Cora Clapp 139 

290 Faust, Cora Florence 139 

290 Faust, Emma Beebe 139 

290 Faust, Frances Eliot 139 

290 Faust, Frances Rogers 139 

290 Faust, Henry Eliot 139 

290 Faust, John William 139 

290 Faust, John William 139 

290 Faust, Katherine Clarissa 139 

290 Faust, Marguerite 139 

290 Faust, Roswell Beebe 139 

350 Featherstonaugh, Emily C 149 

350 Featherstonaugh, George W 149 

350 Featherstonaugh, George W 149 

330 Fell, Mildred 144 

330 Fell, R. N 144 



INDEX OF NAMES OTHER THAN ELIOT. 



323 



No. Page. 

16 Fiske, Ebenezer - . . 33 

384 Fitch, Clara Jeanette 156 

355 Fitch, Eliot Grant 150 

355 Fitch, Grant 150 

355 Fitch, Ruth 150 

93 Flack, John G 72 

624 Fleet, Beulah 195 

624 Fleet, Casper 195 

624 Fleet, Elsie Matilda 195 

624 Fleet, John Oakley 195 

332 Flesher, Emeline 180 

123 Fletcher, Florence G 87 

123 Fletcher, Frank Eliot 86 

123 Fletcher, George Horace 87 

263 Fletcher, Horace Elliott 133 

263 Fletcher, Horace R 06 

123 Fletcher, Horace R 133 

123 Fletcher, Luella 87 

123 Fletcher, Minnie 87 

176 Flinn, Mary Ann 100 

176 Flinn, Sarah Emily 100 

176 Flinn, William 100 

231 Foote, Frances Elizabeth 119 

231 Foote, George Augustus 119 

231 Foote, Harry Ward 120 

231 Foote, Katherine Virginia 120 

231 Foote, Samuel Edmund 119 

233 Forbes, Edith 123 

432 Forbes, Mary Anne 194 

112 Foster, Frederic B 83 

112 Foster, Louise H 83 

112 Foster, Mary H 83 

112 Foster, William E 83 

15 Fowler, Abridget 33 

90 Fowler, Amanda 71 

90 Fowler, Amos 71 

90 Fowler, Amos 72 

90 Fowler, Amos 72 

90 Fowler, Annie Griffing "]2 

188 Fowler, Caroline E 106 

90 Fowler, Catherine "]2. 

90 Fowler, Catherine Eliot 72 

90 Fowler, Clarissa Hart 72 

90 Fowler, Elihu Washburn 72 

90 Fowler, Elizabeth 72 

90 Fowler, Henrietta 72 

90 Fowler, Henry 72, 76 



No. 

90 

90 

90 

90 

90 

369 

140 

140 

445 

21 

21 

21 

40 

40 

40 

40 

40 

40 

11 

11 

11 

293 

293 

293 

293 

293 



Page. 

Fowler, Henry Eliot 72 

Fowler, John Eliot 71 

Fowler, John Eliot 72 

Fowler, Sallie -]2 

Fowler, Sarah 71 

Francis, Harriette Rode 184 

Freeman, Andrew 91 

Freeman, Mary Ashley 91 

Frey, Albert 169 

Frink, Adaline 39 

Frink, William 39 

Frink, William 39 

Frost, Amanda 48 

Frost, Charlotte Loraine 48 

Frost, Julia 48 

Frost, Maria 47 

Frost, Noyes 48 

Frost, Samuel 47 

Fiiger, Frederick William 30 

Fiiger, Frederick William 30 

Fiiger, Theodore Hall 30 

Fulton, Clara 140 

Fulton, David 140 

Fulton, Henry Ashley 140 

Fulton, Isabel 140 

Fulton, Mary Ashley 140 



G 

25 Gale, Alfred de Forest 45 

25 Gale, Alfred Warren * . . 45 

25 Gale, Benjamin 45 

25 Gale, Benjamin 45 

25 Gale, Benjamin Herbert 45 

25 Gale, Caroline de Forest 45 

25 Gale, Catherine 45 

25 Gale, Edward Courtland 45 

25 Gale, Eliot Thompson 45 

25 Gale, Elizabeth 45 

25 Gale, Ezra Thompson 45 

25 Gale, Hannah 45 

25 Gale, Harold de Forest 45 

25 Gale, Juliana 45 

25 Gale, Margaret Eliza 45 

25 Gale, Marie Carolyn 45 

25 Gale, Mary 45 

25 Gale, Mary de Forest 45 



3 2 4 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



No. Page. 

25 Gale, Mehitable 45 

25 Gale, Samuel 45 

25 Gale, Samuel 45 

25 Gale, Samuel 45 

184 Gallion, Martha Eliza 148 

301 Galloway, Mary Isabel 177 

93 Ganong, Fanny Maria 74 

93 Ganong, Jessie Reynolds 74 

93 Ganong, Lillian Augusta 74 

93 Ganong, Monmouth H 74 

93 Ganong, William Gilbert 74 

187 Gardner, Edith 105 

256 Garrett, Sarah I7 1 

81 Gates, Catherine Ann 69 

81 Gates, Catherine Ann 69 

81 Gates, Jane Elizabeth 69 

81 Gates, Sarah Ann 69 

81 Gates, Selden 69 

76 Gates, Statira 98 

236 Gay, Annie 124 

266 Gaylord, Anna 175 

422 George, Frederick K 165 

59 Gerwig, Albert H 60 

59 Gerwig, Henrietta Swift 60 

59 Gerwig, Mark Albert 60 

263 Getty, Ann Eliza 133 

263 Getty, Frances Maria 133 

263 Getty, Robert Eliot 133 

263 Getty, Robert H 132 

670 Gibson, Blanche 209 

93 Gilbert, Frank 74 

131 Gildersleeve, Benjamin 88 

131 Gildersleeve, William Eliot 89 

325 Gillespie, Martha 179 

47 Gillett, Charlotte 52 

47 Gillett, Harvey 52 

532 Glearrett, Rosetta E 204 

465 Gleason, Bernice Marion 172 

465 Gleason, Chilla 172 

465 Gleason, Harriett Lucille 172 

465 Gleason, Mabel Naomi 172 

465 Gleason, Maude M 172 

465 Gleason, Myron M 172 

465 Gleason, Roy Elliott 172 

2 Glover, Habbakuk 16 

2 Glover, Hannah 16 

2 Glover, Rebecca 16 



No. Page. 

11 Godfrey, Alexandrine Louise .... 29 

231 Godkin, Edwin Lawrence 119 

231 Godkin, Elizabeth Eliot 120 

231 Godkin, Lawrence 120 

231 Godkin, Ralph 120 

408 Goken, Helen Elizabeth 162 

408 Goken, Henry Davis 162 

408 Goken, Marguerette Julia 162 

186 Goldsmith, Mary Deborah 104 

139 Goode, Julia 90 

177 Goodrich, Charles Edward 101 

59 Goodrich, Charlotte Janet 61 

59 Goodrich, Edward J 59 

177 Goodrich, Edward Payson 101 

177 Goodrich, Elizabeth Eliot 101 

177 Goodrich, John C. Rives 101 

177 Goodrich, John Howard 101 

177 Goodrich, Josepha Franklin 101 

177 Goodrich, Josiah 100 

177 Goodrich, Mary Lay 100 

59 Goodrich, Robert James 59 

40 Goodyear, Charlotte 48 

40 Goodyear, Eliza Amanda 48 

40 Goodyear, Lizzie 48 

40 Goodyear, Miles H 48 

40 Goodyear, William B 48 

40 Goodyear, William B 48 

3 Gookins, Elizabeth 20 

480 Gordon, Margaretta F 200 

165 Grafton, Frances Eliot 91-96 

165 Grafton, Harriet 96 

165 Grafton, Joseph D 95 

165 Grafton, Joseph Dana 96 

666 Granger, Rollo S 202 

66 Grant, Edward Sims 66 

66 Grant, Richard Mitchell 66 

66 Grant, Richard S 66 

45 Graves, Anson R 50 

2,72, Graves, Catherine 186 

59 Graves, Charles Wilkes 61 

45 Graves, David Watrous 50 

45 Graves, Eliot Varnum 50 

45 Graves, Frederick Daniel 50 

45 Graves, Gertrude 50 

45 Graves, Margaret 50 

37 Graves, Nathaniel 47 

27 Graves, Nathaniel 47 



INDEX OF NAMES OTHER THAN ELIOT. 



325 



No. Page. 

45 Graves, Paul 50 

37 Graves, Sarah 47 

140 Gray, Clifton Sidney 91 

448 Greenwood, Abram 170 

448 Greenwood, Eliot Abram 170 

59 Greenwood, Eleanor Gray 61 

59 Greenwood, William F 61 

75 Gregory, Agnes 97 

113 Gregory, Eliot Wyllys 83 

113 Gregory, Levi 83 

59 Griffin, Emily 61 

59 Griggs, Edna Swift 62 

59 Griggs, Elihu Cooley 62 

59 Griggs, Frances Elizabeth 62 

59 Griggs, Heman Swift 62 

59 Griggs, Louise 62 

59 Griggs, Lucy Eliot 62 

59 Griggs, Stephen 62 

59 Griggs, Stephen Adelbert 62 

90 Griswold, Charlotte Griffing .... 72 

30 Griswold, Clarina 58 

186 Griswold, Edward Eliot 104 

186 Griswold, Ellen 104 

83 Griswold, Fanny 70 

373 Griswold, Fanny 186 

83 Griswold, Fitz Edward 70 

186 Griswold, Frank Russell 104 

83 Griswold, George 70 

83 Griswold, George Cleveland .... 70 

90 Griswold, George L 72 

186 Griswold, Henry 103 

186 Griswold, Henry Daniel 104 

83 Griswold, Hetta 70 

83 Griswold, Hetta 70 

186 Griswold, Jennie Frisbie 104 

186 Griswold, John Eliot 104 

186 Griswold, John Lewis 104 

186 Griswold, Joseph 104 

372 Griswold, Josiah 153 

90 Griswold, Katherine Linsley .... 72 

186 Griswold, Lydia Goldsmith 104 

186 Griswold, Minnie May 104 

83 Griswold, Nancy 70 

90 Griswold, Robert Eliot 72 

83 Griswold, Roger 70 

186 Griswold, Russell Eliot 104 

186 Griswold, Walter Slocum 104 



No. 
529 
255 



331 
331 
331 
331 
331 
331 
331 
331 
331 
331 
331 
331 
331 
77 
291 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 

105 
105 
105 
105 
204 
iS7 
93 
59 
441 

259 

42 
472 
643 
15 
15 
15 
15 
15 



Page. 

Grove, Alberta G 204 

Gurley, William T 130 

H 

Haas, Carson 145 

Haas, Edna 145 

Haas, Erma 145 

Haas, Frances 145 

Haas, Horace Burt 145 

Haas, Joseph 144 

Haas, Leona 145 

Haas, Lida 145 

Haas, Mabel 144 

Haas, Mary 145 

Haas, Myron 145 

Haas, Raymond 145 

Haas, Robert E 144 

Habert, William R 68 

Hagar, Katharine 139 

Hall, Brenton 29 

Hall, Josephine Emeline 29 

Hall, Marie Navarre 30 

Hall, Nathalie Heloise 29 

Hall, Samuel 29 

Hall, Samuel Holden 29 

Hall, Stella Holden 29 

Hall, Theodore Parsons 29 

Hall, William Brenton 29 

Halleck, Fitz-Greene 79 

Halleck, Israel 78 

Halleck, Maria 79, 80, 81 

Halleck, Nathaniel 81 

Hamilton, Charles A 112 

Hammill, Charlotte Frances 143 

Hanks, Lyman 73 

Hanna, Emma H 59 

Hanover, Florence Lillian 195 

Harlan, Effa D 131 

Harlow, Sarah 85 

Harris, Alwilda Caroline 199 

Harris, Margaret Catherine 208 

Hart, Daniel 33 

Hart, Franklin Henry 24, 33 

Hart, Hawkins 33 

Hart, John 33 

Hart, Lois 33 



326 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



No. Page. 

90 Hart, Maria Halleck 72 

15 Hart, Ruth 33 

90 Hart, Sally Amelia 72 

15 Hart, Samuel 33 

15 Hart, Samuel 33 

15 Hart, William Augustus 33 

131 Hartman, Florence 145 

131 Hartman, Henry 145 

131 Hartman, Horace 145 

173 Hartman, Jennie May 99 

131 Hartman, Mason 145 

315 Hartwell, Belle 179 

677 Harvey, Edith M 203 

677 Harvey, Frank C 203 

427 Hayes, Eliot 166 

427 Hayes, J. F 166 

427 Hayes, Marguerite 166 

77 Hazard, Clara 68 

262 Heath, Ann Eliza 132 

262 Heath, George 132 

33 Hempstead, Experience 69 

140 Henderson, 91 

141 Henderson, Catherine E 91 

141 Henderson, Margaret F 91 

383 Henry, Ellen L 187 

489 Herrington, Emma F 201 

207 Hewitt, Daniel 114 

195 Hickox, Frances Amelia 108 

195 Hickox, Frances Eliot 108 

195 Hickox, Frances Eliot 108 

195 Hickox, George Augustus 108 

195 Hickox, Ithiel 107 

195 Hickox, William Brisbane 108 

195 Hickox, Zillah Keese 108 

375 Hill, Alice 154 

ill Hill, Catherine 118 

83 Hill, Elihu 70 

45 Hill, Gilman Crane 5° 

70 Hill, Joanna 95 

45 Hill, Katharine 5° 

186 Hine, Newton 104 

66 Hinman, David Curtis 66 

66 Hinman, Edward Curtis 66 

118 Hitchcock, Nancy 84 

607 Hiteshaw, Alfred T 192 

607 Hiteshaw, Emma Frances 192 

607 Hiteshaw, Helen Margaret 192 



No. 
607 
59 
48 
346 
346 
346 
346 
346 
346 
346 
346 
346 
133 
133 
305 
133 
133 
112 

19 
191 
191 
609 
191 
191 
411 

233 

48 
100 
48 
48 



48 



Page. 

Hiteshaw, Julia Lulu 192 

Hobbs, Charles M 63 

Hobbs, Laura 54 



8g 



Hoff, Alexandria Mary 

Hoff, Anna Campbell 

Hoff, Atlee Heber 

Hoff, George Atlee 

Hoff, Harvey Wilson 

Hoff, Heber 

Hoff, John Elderkin 

Hoff, John George 

Hoff, Martha Eliza 

Hoffman, Eda Elizabeth 

Hoffman, Mary Ethelinda 89 

Hoffman, Nettie 178 

Hoffman, William Henry 89 

Hoffman, Zechariah N 89 

Holbrook, Louise 83 

Holloway, George 39 

Holly, Ethel May 107 

Holly, George Morris 107 

Holly, Lily B 207 

Holly, Morris N 107 

Holly, William Todd 107 

Holt, Frank 162 

Hooper, William 123 



48 
48 
48 
48 
48 



Hopkins 
Hopkins 
Hopkins 
Hopkins 
Hopkins 
Hopkins 
Hopkins 
Hopkins 
Hopkins 
Hopkins 
Hopkins 
Hopkins 
Hopkins 
Hopkins 
Hopkins 
Hopkins 
Hopkins 
Hopkins 
Hopkins 
Hopkins 
Hopkins 



Abbie 54 

Abel Grosvenor 77 

Adelaide 54 

Adelaide 54 

Adelaide 54 

Adelaide Hull 54 

Alice 54 

Ashley Carr 54 

Benjamin Bronson .... 54 

Caroline 54 

Caroline 54 

diaries 54 

Delinda 54 

Dorsey 54 

Edward 54 

Eliot 54 

Eliot R 54 

Elizabeth 54 

Eliza Oliver 54 

Frances 54 

Frances 54 



INDEX OF NAMES OTHER THAN ELIOT. 



3 2 7 



No. 



48 



226 
48 
48 
48 
48 
48 



210 

93 
93 
93 
173 
173 
173 
408 

173 
173 
125 
125 
125 

125 

125 

125 

40 

654 
62 

260 

62 
48 

211 

IS 
261 

36 

57 



Page. 

Hopkins, Grace Miller 54 

Hopkins, Hannibal Mason 54 

Hopkins, Henry 54 

Hopkins, Laura Gardner 54 

Hopkins, Louisa 54 

Hopkins, Margaret 54 

Hopkins, Mary (Polly) 54 

Hopkins, Mary Delia 77 

Hopkins, Mary Frances 54 

Hopkins, Rebecca 54 

Hopkins, Reuben 53 

Hopkins, Richard Rockwell 54 

Hopkins, Sophia Appolonia 158 

Hopkins, Stephen 54 

Hopkins, Theresa 54 

Hopkins, Warner Miller 54 

Hopkins, William 54 

Hopkins, William H 54 

Hopkins, William Hector 54 

Hopkins, William Ruffin 54 

Hornung, Margaretta 151 

Horton, Rose E 75 

Hotchkin, Amanda Simmons .... 75 

Hotchkin, Edward Judson 74 

Hotchkiss, Agnes May 99 

Hotchkiss, Dwight Edwin 99 

Llotchkiss, Emily Sophia 99 

Hotchkiss, Mary Ellen 162 

Hotchkiss, Roy Francis 99 

Hotchkiss, Winfield Scott 99 

Houghton, Albert 88 

Houghton, Albin 88 

Houghton, Jonas 88 

Houghton, Lyman 88 

Houghton, Oliver 88 

Houghton, William Albin 88 

Hovey, E. Otis 48 

Howard, Cordelia Valesca 208 

Howard, Edna 64 

Howell, Arthaline 173 

Howell, Bertha 64 

Howell, Julia 54 

Hubbard, Hannah 152 

Hubbard, Patience 33 

Hulbert, Emma Jane 131 

Hull, Abigail 81 

Hull, Clarissa 55 

21 



No. Page. 

360 Hull, Phoebe Elizabeth 182 

48 Hull, Samuel 54 

134 Hulse, Sarah Wickham 138 

93 Hunt, Caroline Blanche 74 

546 Hunt, Ellen Montgomery 182 

93 Hunt, Floyd Prentiss 74 

270 Hunt, George 176 

123 Hunt, George A 87 

123 Hunt, John Philo 87 

123 Hunt, Margaret Emily 86 

123 Hunt, Mary Samantha 87 

93 Hunt, Norman 74 

123 Hunt, Olive Jane 4. . 86 

123 Hunt, Salmon 86 

123 Hunt, William E 86 

8 Hunter, William M 21 

83 Hunter, William R 70 

173 Huntington, David 99 

57 Huntington, Edward Boylston . . 57 

57 Huntington, Edward Norton .... 58 

57 Huntington, Edward Trumbull . . 58 

57 Huntington, Eliphalet 55 

57 Huntington, Elizabeth Moore ... 58 

57 Huntington, Elizabeth Moore ... 58 

57 Huntington, Frederick Jabez .... 58 

57 Huntington, Jedediah Vincent ... 58 

57 Huntington, Joseph 56 

57 Huntington, Joseph Eckley 57 

57 Huntington, Joshua 57 

57 Huntington, Joshua 58 

57 Huntington, Mary 56 

57 Huntington, Mary 58 

57 Huntington, Mary Lanman 58 

57 Huntington, Peter Lanman 58 

57 Huntington, Sarah 55 

57 Huntington, Sarah Ann 57 

57 Huntington, Susan Mansfield ... 57 

57 Huntington, Susan Mansfield ... 58 

127 Hurd, Sarah 134 

59 Huston, Mary 61 

93 Hyatt, Alonzo B 74 

93 Hyatt, Claude Elliott 74 

93 Hyatt, Josie Benton 74 

93 Hyatt, Maud Ely 74 

93 Hyatt, Wallace 74 



328 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



No. Page. 

8 Imlay, Adelaide 21 

123 Ingersoll, Charles 87 

523 Ingledue, Samanatha J 202 

11 Irvine, Josephine De Navarre.... 29 

1 1 Irvine, R. J. C 29 

236 Ives, Fannie R 124 

236 Ives, Frederick 124 

236 Ives, Nettie A 124 

236 Ives, Rosa J 124 



Jackson, George F ,87 

Janes, Amelia Elliott 133 

Janes, Edwin Lines 133 

Janes, Hannah Eliza 132 

January, Janet I9 2 

Jarvis, George Tibbals 187 

Jarvis, H. A 147 

Jeffords, Caroline Frances 50 

Jeffords, John 5° 

Jewett, Caleb 108 

Jewett, Frances Hickox 108 

Johnson, 92 

Johnson, B. S 91 



44 Johnson, Catherine 



85 



45 Johnson, Cornelia 50 

491 Johnson, Elinor 176 

379 Johnson, Eliza 187 

151 Johnson, Ellen 142 

417 Johnson, Isadore Woodruff 193 

45 Johnson, John D 50 

243 Johnson, Josephine W 126 

48 Johnson, William 54 

59 Johnston, Clark B 59 

59 Johnston, Ella May 59 

59 Johnston, Harold C 59 

59 Johnston, Ida Adeline 59 

59 Johnston, John 59 

59 Johnston, John Lincoln 59 

59 Johnston, Lawrence J 59 

59 Johnston, Walter P 59 

59 Johnston, Wendell H 59 

236 Jones, Adolphus Erastus 124 



No. 




12 


Jones, 


377 


Jones, 


236 


Jones, 


236 


Jones, 


558 


Jones, 


236 


Jones, 


236 


Jones, 


534 


Jones, 


236 


Jones, 


331 


Jones, 


12 


Jones, 


558 


Jones, 


12 


Jones, 


12 


Jones, 


59 


Jones, 


15 


Jones, 


161 


Justice 


161 


Justice 



Page. 

Alfred Akin 31 

Edwin Wheatley 155 

Erastus 124 

Frances Maria 124 

George Elmer 183 

Harry E 124 

Henry Elliott 124 

Homer 180 

Jennett Eliza 124 

Margaret 144 

Mary E 31 

Miriam Eliot 183 

Morgan Akin 31 

Myra Eloise 31 

Ottilie 63 

Sally Maria 33 

Elizabeth 144 

, Isabella Rose 144 

K 

90 Kays, Martha J 72 

139 Kayser, Robert Lee 90 

195 Keese, Zaydee B 108 

259 Kellogg, Allen G 131 

259 Kellogg, Caroline Eliot 131 

193 Kellogg, Lavinia 149 

259 Kellogg, Sarah Amanda 131 

259 Kellogg, William Allen 131 

314 Kelsey, Louisa 14- 2 

507 Kemon, Marie Louise 178 

59 Kerr, Ellen M 60 

139 Kerr, George Washington 90 

139 Kerr, George Washington 9° 

139 Kerr, Isabel Rippey 90 

139 Kerr, Katherine 90 

77 Kimball, C 68 

77 Kimball, Peter 68 

203 King, Adelaide Patton Ill 

203 King, Carolyn Merritt Ill 

203 King, Charles no-ill 

175 King, Delia 100 

203 King, Elinor Yorke 1 1 1 

203 King, Frances Ill 

198 King, Rufus 109 

203 King, Rufus 109 

203 King, Rufus in 



INDEX OF NAMES OTHER THAN ELIOT. 



329 



No. 

219 

156 

134 

156 

70 

82 

299 

255 

21 

21 

201 



275 
275 
'275 
200 
40 
40 
40 
40 
40 
40 
40 
40 
40 
40 
40 
83 
83 
83 
83 
83 

95 

263 

263 

263 

263 

263 

263 

263 

263 

572 

59 

12 

12 



Page. 

King, Samuel 117 

Kinsley, Erasmus D 94 

Kinsley, Hudson 89 

Kinsley, Mary Louisa 94 

Kirtland, Jared 95 

Kirtland, Mary Deborah 101 

Kline, Hannah E 177 

Klock, Ruth A 130 

Knight, Mary Eaton 39 

Knight, Samuel P 39 

Kuper, Wilhelmina 149 

L 

Lacey, Clarence Eliot 134 

Lacey, Myrtie Eliot 134 

Lacey, P. C 134 

Lamotte, Marie 109 

Lancraft, Charles Eliot 48 

Lancraft, Charlotte Josephine ... 48 

Lancraft, Charlotte M 48 

Lancraft, Esther Amanda 48 

Lancraft, George E 48 

Lancraft, Harvey B 48 

Lancraft, Henry S 48 

Lancraft, Ida Mabel 48 

Lancraft, John Eliot 48 

Lancraft, William M 48 

Lancraft, William T 48 

Landon, Hannah 70 

Landon, Henrietta 70 

Landon, Mary Ann 70 

Landon, Nancy 70 

Landon, Samuel 70 

Lane, Patience 112 

Langdon, Anne Elliott 133 

Langdon, Camilla Louise 133 

Langdon, Florence 133 

Langdon, Frederick Harmon .... 133 

Langdon, Katherine 133 

Langdon, Philando Curtis 133 

Langdon, Philip Cuyler 133 

Langdon, Robert Getty 133 

Langley, Ida L 206 

Langley, Minnie W 62 

Larned, Beatrice 31 

Larned, Sylvester 31 



No. p a g e . 

255 La Rue, Aggie W 129 

258 La Rue, Avis Naomi 172 

255 La Rue, Bidd Orley 130 

255 La Rue, Mary E. Hayes 129 

255 La Rue, Minnie B 129 

255 La Rue, Ollie R 129 

255 La Rue, Sylvester Marquis 129 

279 Latimer, Charles Ely 134 

279 Latimer, Florence Eliot 134 

1 1 Law, Ann 29 

1 1 Law, Jahleel 29 

11 Law, Jonathan 28,29,103 

182 Law, John Eliot 103 

211 Law, Mary 29, 103, 152 

1 1 Law, Sarah 29 

182 Law, Sarah 103 

182 Law, William 103 

182 Law, William 103 

47 Lawrence, Jane Riker 52 

139 Lawson, Elizabeth 90 

78 Lay, Jonathan 69 

93 Lealbetter, Rose A 75 

43 Leavenworth, Eli 49 

43 Leavenworth, Sarah 50 

45 Leavenworth, Sarah Hannah .... 50 

45 Leavenworth, William 50 

66 Leavitt, Lydia E 66 

47 Lee, Allen Campbell 52 

47 Lee, Benjamin Franklin 52 

47 Lee, Charlotte 52 

47 Lee, Daniel 51.52 

47 Lee, Daniel Mather 52 

188 Lee, Davis 106 

188 Lee, Edwin Davis 106 

47 Lee, Eliza Palmer 52 

47 Lee, Fanny 52 

47 Lee, Harriet 52 

188 Lee, Henry Eliot 106 

188 Lee, Iva May 106 

569 Lee, Maud Abigail 206 

47 Lee, Nancy Atwater 52 

47 Lee, Sally 52 

47 Lee, Sophia 52 

47 Lee, Sophronia Spalding 52 

47 Lee, Susan Sophia 52 

47 Lee, William Eliot 52 

186 Leete, Abbie L 104 



33° 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



No. Page. 

91 Leete, George 72 

90 Leete, Harriet 71 

17 Leete, Mary 46 

48 Le Fevre, Mary De Lisle 54 

361 Leffingwell, Mary Augusta 182 

66 Lemon, Charles Edwin 66 

66 Lemon, Daniel S 66 

66 Lemon, Harriet Ida 66 

293 Leslie, Jack 140 

12 Lester, Charles Edwards 31 

12 Lester, Ellen Salisbury 31 

12 Lester, Lucy 3° 

12 Lester, Moses 31 

8 Lewis, Charles Smith 21 

72 Lewis, Clarissa 95 

56 Lewis, Mary 92 

186 Limont, Carrie 104 

446 Lindsay, Agnes May 170 

446 Lindsay, Alice Bertha 170 

446 Lindsay, Charles H 169 

446 Lindsay, Ethel Emma 170 

446 Lindsay, Eugene 169 

446 Lindsay, Eulalie 169 

446 Lindsay, Irene 169 

446 Lindsay, Palmer 169 

446 Lindsay, Sylvia Ida 170 

139 Little, E. W 90 

586 Locke, William 189 

363 Lockwood, Mary E 183 

521 Logan, Alberta 202 

59 Logan, Austria 59 

59 Logan, David Swift 63 

59 Logan, Emily 63 

59 Logan, Henry Eliot 63 

59 Logan, Joshua 63 

59 Logan, Julia Swift 63 

59 Logan, Louisa 63 

125 Long, Dolly 87 

125 Long, Flora 87 

125 Long, Frank 87 

125 Long, Jackson 87 

192 Loomis, Lou 107 

419 Loper, Annie Brewster 164 

419 Loper, Grace Eliot 164 

187 Loper, Rosalin 105 

419 Loper, Samuel Ward 164 

31 Lord, Elizabeth 67 



No. 

388 

94 

411 

13 

13 

13 

351 

333 

400 

644 



331 



9 
86 
86 

86 



86 

86 

86 

86 

86 

86 

86 

86 

86 

86 

240 

240 

240 

240 

57 

57 

57 

57 

473 

193 

40 

290 

263 



Page. 

Love, Sarah Agnes 188 

Lowell, Mary Ann 76 

Lowery, Minnie 163 

Lucas, Augustus 31, 32 

Lucas, Augustus 31, 32 

Lucas, Barsheba 31, 32 

Luddington, Clara 149 

Luebbe, Carrie Louise 145 

Luther, John S 158 

Lydston, Lucy Adrienne 208 

Lynde, Benjamin 20 

Lynde, Hannah 20 

Lynde, Lydia 20 

Lynde, Mary 20 

Lyons, Jennie 145 

M 

Mackman, Elizabeth 39 

Maine, Alexander 70 

Maine, Celia 71 

Maine, Charles 71 

Maine, Deborah 71 

Maine, Edwin R 71 

Maine, Eleanor M 71 

Maine, Fanny A 71 

Maine, George D 71 

Maine, Harriet 71 

Maine, Horace S 71 

Maine, John 70 

Maine, John A 71 

Maine, Samuel R 71 

Maine, Sarah A 71 

Maine, Uriah 71 

Mann, Adelaide Rebecca 125 

Mann, Miriam Annette 125 

Mann, Peter Jackson 125 

Mann, Virgil Alexander 125 

Mansfield, Achilles 56 

Mansfield, Elizabeth 56 

Mansfield, Nathan 56 

Mansfield, Susan 56, 57 

Manville, Gertrude Flora 200 

Marsh, Eliza M 149 

Martin, Miss 47 

Martin, Joseph W 139 

Marvin, Mary A 133 



INDEX OF NAMES OTHER THAN ELIOT. 



33 1 



No. Page. 

93 Marvin, Samuel P 75 

139 Mason, Celia Bickley 90 

8 Mason, Susan Lawrence 20 

440 Mathison, Matilda Ames 194 

291 Mattingly, Kathleen M 140 

291 Mattingly, Louis J 140 

175 Maury, Isabelle F 100 

173 May, Charles Huntington 99 

173 May, Dorothy Catherine 99 

173 May, Dorothy Catherine 99 

173 May, Dorothy Emma 99 

173 May, Edwin Hyland 99 

173 May, Edwin Selden 99 

173 May, Eliot John 99 

173 May, Elizabeth 98 

173 May, Ethel Durrie 99 

173 May, Eva Leora 99 

173 May, Fannie Elizabeth 99 

173 May, Flora Emma 99 

173 May, Henry Alexander 99 

173 May, Henry Edwin 99 

173 May, John 98 

173 May, John 99 

173 May, Lynde Eliot 98 

173 May, Lynde Eliot 99 

173 May, Lynde Henry 99 

173 May, Richard Edwards 99 

173 May, Ruth Hubbard 99 

173 May, Sarah Boardman 99 

173 May, Selden Townsend 59 

173 May, Statira Emma 99 

261 Meiner, Fanny Elizabeth 132 

395 Meloviedor, Alexandra 190 

331 Mentzer, Edith 145 

331 Mentzer, Henry E 145 

331 Mentzer, Horace 145 

331 Mentzer, Lola 145 

524 Mercer, Martha 203 

40 Merriman, Eliot 48 

40 Merriman, Mary 48 

40 Merriman, Ruth 47 

40 Merriman, Sarah 48 

40 Merriman, Theophilus 47 

236 Mershon, James R 124 

177 Mew, Emily Goodrich 101 

177 Mew, William M 100 

346 Meyer, Wilhelmina Christine .... 148 



No. Page. 

270 Miles, Jane Alletta 176 

171 Miller, Asenath M 146 

485 Miller, Charles Addison 175 

77 Miller, Elizabeth 99 

222 Miller, Elizabeth Heaton 117 

222 Miller, Ellen Augusta 1 18 

48 Miller, Isabelle 54 

48 Miller, Kate Tracy 54 

222 Miller, Lewis Eliot 118 

222 Miller, Lewis Leete 117 

222 Miller, Mary Chittenden 118 

48 Miller, Mary Hopkins 54 

59 Miller, Mary Leland 62 

516 Miller, Newton F 179 

519 Miller, Nora M 201 

48 Miller, William B 54 

518 Milner, Cora 201 

139 Miltenberger, H. B 90 

77 Miner, Nelson 68 

8 Minshull, Ann 21 

65 Mitchell, Abigail 65 

66 Mitchell, Abner 65 

66 Mitchell, Abner W. 66 

139 Mitchell, Annie Ewing 90 

66 Mitchell, Charles Andrews 66 

66 Mitchell, Charles Leavitt 66 

66 Mitchell, Elisha 65 

66 Mitchell, Eliza North 66 

66 Mitchell, Elizabeth Ann 66 

66 Mitchell, Ellen Hannah 66 

66 Mitchell, Elnathan 66 

66 Mitchell, Eunice P 66 

66 Mitchell, Francis Eliot 66 

66 Mitchell, Henry Eliot 66 

45 Mitchell, John 50 

59 Mitchell, Margaret 60 

66 Mitchell, Margaret Eliot 66 

66 Mitchell, Mary Harriet 66 

66 Mitchell, Mary Helen 66 

66 Mitchell, Mary Phoebe 66' 

66 Mitchell, Matthew Eliot 66 

66 Mitchell, Matthew Eliot 66 

66 Mitchell, Matthew Henry 66 

66 Mitchell, Sarah Maria 66 

139 Mitchell, Susan Preston Christy. . 90 

66 Mitchell, William Wheeler 66 

12 Mixer, John 30 



33 2 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



No. Page. 

125 Mizelle, John 87 

238 Molloy, Jeanette Elliott Robinson 125 

238 Molloy, John C 125 

238 Molloy, Laura Stockton 125 

93 Moore, Emily P 73 

187 Moore, F. F 105 

12 Morgan, Edwin 3 1 

12 Morgan, Mary E. Dutton 31 

12 Morgan, Miles 30 

12 Morgan, Phineas 3° 

372 Morrell, Elizabeth 154 

293 Morris, 140 

484 Morris, Frank Tilton 175 

260 Morse, Caroline Matilda 173 

43 Morton, William Dudley . 50 

65 Mosely, John 65 

77 Mount, Sarah 67 

1 Mountford, Hannah 15 

309 Mugg, Arthur James 14 2 

309 Mugg, John Simeon 14 2 

309 Mugg, Sarah Katherine 14 2 

267 Mulliken, Elizabeth Annette .... 175 

37 Munger, Ebenezer 47 

37 Munger, Ebenezer 47 

2,7 Munger, Frederic 47 

37 Munger, Martin 47 

27 Munger, Polly 47 

37 Munger, Theodore T. 47 

27 Munger, William 47 

62 Munson, Emma 64 

67 Murdock, Mary 94 

40 Murrey, Nellie 48 

125 Myers, Ada 87 

125 Myers, Forest Marion 87 

125 Myers, Frank 87 

240 Myers, Mary Helen 125 

240 Myers, Paul Browning 125 

240 Myers, William C 125 

125 Myers, William H 87 

240 Myers, William Russell 125 

251 McClellan, Alwilda Medora 128 

251 McClellan, Amelia Maria 128 

251 McClellan, James Johnson 128 

251 McClellan, James Johnson 128 

251 McClellan, Lucy 128 

251 McClellan, Mary Jane 128 

251 McClellan, William 128 



No. Page. 

59 McCombs, J. C 61 

163 McCombs, Lucinda 146 

557 McCord, Ella M 205 

669 McCormack, Harford T 202 

8 McCullough, Elizabeth Budd 21 

421 McDonald, Blanche Southmayd. . 165 

59 McGaughey, Margaret M 63 

375 Mclver, Evander J 154 

375 Mclver, Ruth Janet 154 

444 McKenny, Bernard P 169 

444 McKenny, Catherine N 169 

444 McKenny, James P. Elliott 169 

444 McKenny, Mary A 169 

444 McKenny, Sarah J 169 

240 McKinney, Ivan Browning 125 

240 McKinney, Wanna Jannita 125 

240 McKinney, William B 125 

240 McKinney, William Wendell .... 125 

53 McKinster, 55 

65 McMahon, Charles 65 

125 McNeall, Matilda 87 

445 McQuirk, Nellie 169 

445 McQuirk, Thomas 169 



N 

192 Nelson, Ruby 107 

77 Nettleton, Electa Mareta 68 

77 Nichols, Maria 68 

12 Nicholson, Mr 30 

101 Niles, George 77 

101 Niles, John 77 

101 Niles, Mary Anne 78 

101 Niles, Saloma 77 

101 Niles, Susan 78 

101 Niles, Thomas 78 

187 North, Judith M 105 

66 North, Maria Sybil 65 

96 Norton, Sarah 112, 113, 114 



460 Odell, May 196 

8 Odin, Anna Frances 22 

8 Odin, Esther Kettell 22 

8 Odin, Harriet Louisa 22 

8 Odin, Harriet Walter 22 



INDEX OF NAMES OTHER THAN ELIOT. 



333 



No. 



8 

8 

40 

40 

57 
57 



62 

62 

62 

62 

62 

62 

62 

62 

150 

261 

261 

261 

261 

261 

261 

261 

261 

261 

261 

261 

62 

62 

62 



Page. 

Odin, John 22 

Odin, John, Jr 22 

Odin, John, 3d 22 

Odin, Louisa Vose 22 

O'Harra, Augusta 47 

O'Harra, John 47 

Olcutt, Austin 56 

Olcutt, Elizabeth Mansfield 56 

Oliver, Andrew 20 

Oliver, Andrew 20 

Oliver, Andrew 21 

Oliver, Catherine Sewall 21 

Oliver, Charles Edward 20 

Oliver, Daniel 20 

Oliver, Edward Pullen 20 

Oliver, Ethel Digby Lynde 21 

Oliver, Everard Lawrence 20 

Oliver, Fitz-Edward Pullen ....20-21 

Oliver, Katherine Pynchon 21 

Oliver, Mary Mason 20 

Oliver, Mary Pullen Imlay 21 

Oliver, Susan Lawrence 20 

Oliver, Thomas Fitch 20 

Oliver, William Pynchon 21 

Olmstead, Emelyn Stanley 64 

Olmstead, Franklin Osburn 64 

Olmstead, Henrietta Eliot 64 

Olmstead, Margaret Stanley .... 64 

Olmstead, Mary Warner 64 

Olmstead, Roger Wolcott 64 

Olmstead, Wm. H 64 

Olmstead, Wm. Pitkin 64 

Orcutt, Fidelia S 141 

Orr, Chauncey 132 

Orr, George Coan 132 

Orr, George Raymond 132 

Orr, James William 131 

Orr, John 131 

Orr, John Eliot 131 

Orr, John Sidney 132 

Orr, John Sidney 131 

Orr, Louisa Fanning 131 

Orr, Margaret Amelia 132 

Orr, William Hulbert 131 

Osburn, Adelina Beatrice 64 

Osburn, Clara Louise Williams . . 64 
Osburn, Clarina Eliot 64 



No. Page. 

62 Osburn, Edna Howard 64 

62 Osburn, Frank Chew 64 

62 Osburn, Franklin 64 

62 Osburn, Harry Griswold 64 

62 Osburn, Henrietta Warner 64 

62 Osburn, Henry Augustus 64 

62 Osburn, James Warner 64 

62 Osburn, Jenny Maria 64 

62 Osburn, Laura Schley Chaplin ... 64 

62 Osburn, Mary Eliot 64 

62 Osburn, May Maria 64 

62 Osburn, Robert Dudley 64 

62 Osburn, Robert Dudley Chaplin. . 64 

62 Osburn, Virginia Wyllys 64 

62 Osburn, William Warner 64 

623 Oswalt, Albert 195 

623 Oswalt, Fern 1 195 

623 Oswalt, Leslie Elliott L . 195 

222 Otto, Charles Witman 118 

222 Otto, Elizabeth Leete 118 



P 

300 Packard, Maria 141 

54 Panca, Frances 91 

212 Pardee, Chloe 153 

273 Park, Phoebe 177 

93 Parker, Adele E 74 

186 Parker, Caroline A 104 

93 Parker, Jane T 74 

35 Parmelee, Beulah 78 

218 Parmelee, Clarissa Emma 117 

218 Parmelee, David 117 

218 Parmelee, Edward Fairchild .... 117 

218 Parmelee, Elisha 117 

218 Parmelee, Elizabeth Hart 117 

216 Parmelee, Sarah Augusta 116 

1 1 Parsons, Mehetable 29 

77 Patterson, Agnes 69 

57 Payne, Anna Grace 56 

57 Payne, Edward Townsend 56 

57 Payne, Ellen 56 

57 Payne, Ernest Bolles 56 

57 Payne, Hugh Huntington 56 

57 Payne, Oliver Nichols 56 

139 Pearson, A. L 90 



334 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



No. 

173 Pease, Earle Myron 

59 Peck, C. J 

422 Peck, Katherine Luella . . 

59 Peck, Lucy Christina 

59 Peck, Robert Virgil 

59 Peck, Roland Wells 

59 Peck, Theodore Sherman 

221 Peek, Catherine Hunt ... 

93 Peet, Putnam Francis 

233 Perkins 

233 Perkins 

233 Perkins 

233 Perkins 

233 Perkins 

233 Perkins 

233 Perkins 

233 Perkins 

233 Perkins 

233 Perkins 

233 Perkins 

233 Perkins 

233 Perkins 

233 Perkins 

233 Perkins 

233 Perkins 

233 Perkins 

233 Perkins 
Perkins 
Perkins 
Perkins 
Perkins 



233 
233 
233 
233 
139 



Alice F 

Anna Bowditch 

Charles Elliott ..121,122, 

Edith F 

Edith Forbes 

Edward Cranch 

Eleanor 

Elliott 

Elliott 

Francis Bowditch 

Henry Hill 

James H 

James Handasyd 

James Handasyd 

James Handasyd 

John Forbes 

Margaret F 

Mary R 

Robert F 

Samuel G 

Thomas Nelson 

William Channing 



Peters, . . . 

139 Peters, Ralph 

227 Pettitt, Helen L. S 

335 Pew, Adelaide L 

335 Pew, Frederic Cline . . . 

335 Pew, Julia Caroline . . . 

335 Pew, Kirtland Eliot . . 

335 Pew, Marion 

335 Pew, Richard Kirtland 

335 Pew, Samuel Horace . 

335 Pew, Walter Eliot 

22 Phelps, Hannah 

253 Phipps, Harry M 

77 Pierson, Araminta .... 

77 Pierson, Augusta 

77 Pierson, Edward O. . . 



age. 

99 

62 

165 
62 
62 
62 
62 
157 
74 
123 
123 
123 
123 
123 
123 
124 
123 
124 
123 
124 
120 
123 
124 
124 
124 
123 
123 
123 
123 
123 
123 
90 
90 
119 
146 
146 
146 
146 
146 
146 
146 
146 

49 
129 
68 
68 
68 



No. 

77 
77 
77 
77 
173 
181 

45 

45 

45 

187 

45 

187 

45 

187 

45 

177 

206 

47 

583 

93 

93 

93 

93 

93 

93 

93 

93 

93 

93 

93 

93 

93 

93 

93 

93 

93 

59 

123 

123 

123 

123 

123 

123 

123 

123 

8 



Page. 

Pierson, Ellen Eliza 68 

Pierson, Ellen M 68 

Pierson, Emma Nancy 68 

Pierson, Linas 68 

Pimm, Annie Florence 99 

Polter, Eunice Pemelia 147 

Pomeroy, Nelson A 50 

Porter, Abel 50 

Porter, Charlotte 50 

Porter, Eliot Hale 105 

Porter, Fanny 50 

Porter, Frank J 105 

Porter, Huldah 50 

Porter, Maxwell Stoddard 105 

Porter, Nancy 50 

Porter, Thomas K 101 

Pratt, Susan Maria 151 

Pray, Jane Anne 52 

Prentice, Julia Hubbard 207 

Prentiss, Bertha P 74 

Prentiss, Catherine Fowler 74 

Prentiss, Charles Stanley 74 

Prentiss, Cornelia Elizabeth 74 

Prentiss, Fanny Louise 74 

Prentiss, Harriet Augusta 74 

Prentiss, Joanna E 74 

Prentiss, John 74 

Prentiss, Leon L 74 

Prentiss, Lillian Gertrude 74 

Prentiss, Luther Wright 74 

Prentiss, Mabel Irene 74 

Prentiss, Martha Bridge 74 

Prentiss, Stella Irene 74 

Prentiss, William 74 

Prentiss, William Augustine .... 74 

Prentiss, William Wright 74 

Price, Miriam E 59 

Pugsley, Bertha Margaret 86 

Pugsley, Ella Louise 86 

Pugsley, Emma Margaret 86 

Pugsley, George Henry 86 

Pugsley, Grace 86 

Pugsley, Jennie Eliot 86 

Pugsley, Lynn 86 

Pugsley, Nathan 86 

Pullen, Mary Robinson 20 

Pynchon, Sarah 20 



INDEX OF NAMES OTHER THAN ELIOT. 



335 



R 

No. Page. 

139 Rankin, Emma Willis 90 

398 Rankin, W. H 158 

424 Reddick, Eliot 166 

424 Reddick, Grant 166 

424 Reddick, Pauline Genevieve 166 

359 Redfield, Chloe Cornelia 181 

218 Redfield, Horace 117 

465 Reed, Charles A 172 

333 Reed, Edda Pearl ,... 145 

333 Reed, Emma Maud 145 

333 Reed, Frank Eliot 145 

333 Reed, Mary Blanche 145 

333 Reed, Ray Eliot 145 

333 Reed, William 145 

272 Reynolds, Albert N 134 

272 Reynolds, Gilbert E.- 134 

272 Reynolds, Hannah C 134 

272 Reynolds, Ira 134 

272 Reynolds, Sylvester 134 

377 Rhodes, Margaret Sarah 155 

291 Rice, Charles J 139 

291 Rice, Francis 139 

291 Rice, Francis L 139 

291 Rice, Francis L 139 

233 Rice, George T 123 

233 Rice, George T., Jr 123 

291 Rice, Henry William 139 

291 Rice, James 139 

291 Rice, James R 139 

291 Rice, Laurence H 139 

291 Rice, Leon F 139 

233 Rice, Margaret 123 

291 Rice, Mary A 139 

291 Rice, Mary Cora 139 

291 Rice, Mary E 139 

291 Rice, Mary M 139 

200 Richard, Elodie 109 

200 Richard, J. A 109 

8 Richards, Elise Boardman 21 

57 Richards, Harriet DeWitt 57 

573 Richards, Harry 187 

573 Richards, John Eliot 187 

573 Richards, John Stevens 187 

227 Richards, Mabel C 119 

86 Richards, Mr 71 

573 Richards, Ruth Eliot 187 



No. Page. 

57 Richards, Susan Huntington .... 57 

8 Richards, William Boardman ... 21 

8 Richards, William R 21 

57 Richards, Wolcutt 57 

456 Richmond, Sylvester Morton .... 171 

175 Rives, Blair 100 

175 Rives, Caroline 100 

175 Rives, Ellen Tree 100 

175 Rives, Frank Blair 100 

175 Rives, Franklin 100 

175 Rives, Isabel 100 

175 Rives, Jefferson 100 

175 Rives, John C 99 

175 Rives, John C 100 

175 Rives, John Cook 100 

175 Rives, Lucy 100 

175 Rives, Wright 100 

175 Rives, Wright 100 

59 Robbins, Walter 62 

271 Roberts, Ruth Elliott 133 

399 Roberts, S. W 158 

271 Roberts, William C 133 

176 Robertson, James A 100 

238 Robinson, Baker Trussell 125 

238 Robinson, Eliot Kelly 125 

238 Robinson, Ellen Imogene 125 

238 Robinson, Ellen Maria 125 

238 Robinson, Eugene Algernon .... 125 

239 Robinson, Hannah 163 

174 Robinson, Jane 147 

238 Robinson, Jeanette Elliott 125 

238 Robinson, Roberta Stockton .... 125 

238 Robinson, William 125 

231 Rockwell, Alfred Perkins 120 

231 Rockwell, Frances Beatrice 120 

231 Rockwell, Mary Foote 120 

231 Rockwell, Katharine Diana Ward 120 

231 Rockwell, Samuel Edmund Foote 120 

93 Roff, David 75 

545 Rogers, Henry Gustavus 181 

290 Rogers, Naomi 139 

446 Roney, Charles P 169 

446 Roney, Earnest Hugh 169 

446 Roney, Edward 169 

446 Roney, Harold E 169 

446 Roney, Hazel E 169 

446 Roney, Ines May 170 



336 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



No. . F 

446 Roney, Peter 

446 Roney, Reginald 

446 Roney, Reuben S 

192 Root, Arthur Rollin 

192 Root, Charlotte Smithson 

192 Root, Edward 

59 Root, Elizabeth 

192 Root, Emma Susan 

192 Root, Frank Elliott 

192 Root, Frederick Augustine 

192 Root, Frederick Shonten 

192 Root, Hubert Arthur 

192 Root, Lizzie 

192 Root, Percy Ray 

192 Root, Rollin 

192 Root, Susan Eliot 

191 Rose, Dora 

38 Rose, Rebecca 

59 Ross, Fletcher Rose 

93 Ross, John R 

59 Ross, Joseph Swift 

59 Ross, Sarah Elizabeth 

104 Rossiter, Ruth 

48 Ruffin, Francis Gardner 

12 Ruggles, Tryphena 

125 Runyan, Bertha Lydia Smith .... 

125 Runyan, Charles L 

125 Runyan, Daniel Albert Smith . . . 

125 Runyan, D. L 

125 Runyan, Frances Elizabeth Smith 

125 Runyan, Laura 

101 Russell, Mary 

402 Russell, Mary Leavenworth 

386 Rust, Horatio Nelson 

57 Rutty, Elizabeth Mansfield 

57 Rutty, Jonah 

125 Rybolt, Charles 

341 Ryburn, H. M 

341 Ryburn, Husfert S 

341 Ryburn, Maud 



65 Sackett, Marila 

65 Sackett, Orpha 

93 Sackner, Eda Ethelinda 

93 Sackner, Francis 



age. 
170 
169 
169 
107 
107 
107 
61 
107 
107 
107 
107 
107 
107 
107 
107 
107 
107 

83 

61 

73 

61 

62 
ii5 

54 

30 

87 

87 

87 

87 

87 

87 

77 
190 j 478 



No. 
93 
93 
255 
255 
255 
255 
255 
255 
93 
184 
240 
291 
291 
291 
291 
291 
291 
492 
492 
492 
492 
11 
11 
401 
139 
112 
112 
112 
112 
8 
478 
478 



157 

56 

56 

87 

147 

147 

147 



65 

65 

74 



93 
48 
77 
77 
77 
77 
77 
77 
77 
77 
59 
77 
77 



741 77 



Page. 

Sackner, Minnie Arabella 74 

Sackner, Musa Viola 74 

Sage, Alonzo Blossom 129 

Sage, Amine V. Blaker 129 

Sage, Freelove Maria 129 

Sage, George A 130 

Sage, Mary Louisa 130 

Sage, Polly Munson 130 

Sargent, Frances 75 

Sawyier, Sarah Frances 184 

Sayrs, David Nelson 125 

Schimmiert, Charles J 139 

Schimmiert, Cora M 139 

Schimmiert, Irene M 139 

Schimmiert, John J 139 

Schimmiert, Reginald F 139 

Schimmiert, Richard E 139 

Schnell, Charles Elliott 176 

Schnell, Samuel Solon 170 

Schnell, Viola Katharine 176 

Schnell, Winifred Amant 176 

Scott, Brenton Hall 29 

Scott, James Lee 29 

Scott, Susan 159 

Scovel, Sylvester 90 

Scoville, Charles Eliot 82 

Scoville, Charles Montgomery ... 82 

Scoville, John 82 

Scoville, Mary Ward 82 

Seabury, Lydia Winthrop 21 

Searing, Emily Morton 174 

Searing, Henry 174 

Searing, Luella Elizabeth 174 

Seavy, Mary Park 75 

Seeley, Samuel 54 

Selden, Agnes Eliza 67 

Seldcn, Augustus 68 

Selden, Charles 68 

Selden, Clara Virginia 68 

Selden, Clark 67 

Selden, Claudius Buchanan 67 

Seldcn, Claudius Hubert 68 

Selden, Cynthia 68 

Selden, Cynthia Elizabeth 59 

Selden, Edmund Clark 67 

Selden, Edward 68 

Selden, Eliza Amelia 67 



INDEX OF NAMES OTHER THAN ELIOT. 



337 



No. Page. 

77 Selden, Francis Granger 67 

77 Selden, Harriet Maria 67 

77 Selden, Henry Eliot 67 

59 Selden, Henry Sylvester 59 

59 Selden, Henry Thornton 59 

77 Selden, Hezekiah 67 

77 Selden, Hubert Clark 68 

77 Selden, Jane Amelia 68 

77 Selden, Mabel Elizabeth 67 

77 Selden, Mary 68 

77 Selden, Mary Electa 68 

77 Selden, Mary Elizabeth 67 

77 Selden, Mary Louisa 68 

77 Selden, Nathan Eliot 67 

77 Selden, Nathan Wilcox 67 

77 Selden, Richard Lord 68 

77 Selden, Sarah 68 

59 Selden, Sarah Gertrude 59 

77 Selden, Stephen Dudley 67 

77 Selden, Stephen Mortimer 68 

59 Selden, Sylvester 59 

77 Selden, Theodosia Jerusha 67 

77 Selden, Thomas 68 

77 Selden, William Augustus 68 

77 Selden, William Augustus 67 

77 Selden, William Henry 67 

113 Sellick, Charlotte 83 

62 Sheffield, Maria 64 

37 Sheldon, Cynthia 47 

325 Shiners, Elizabeth 179 

521 Shoots, Emma Sue 202 

393 Shott, Sarah C 188 

192 Shonten, Matilda 107 

125 Simkins, Elizabeth 87 

139 Simmons, Alice Maud 90 

94 Simmons, Charles Abbott 76 

94 Simmons, Edward Eliot 73 

94 Simmons, Edward Elliott 76 

94 Simmons, Frederic 76 

94 Simmons, Frederic Henry 76 

94 Simmons, Gertrude Elizabeth ... 76 

94 Simmons, Henry Fowler 76 

94 Simmons, Julia E 76 

90 Simmons, Julia Eliot 7 2 

94 Simmons, Leslie Elliott 76 

94 Simmons, Lincoln Fennimore ... 76 

94 Simmons, Mary Ellen 76 



No. Page. 

94 Simmons, Tillinghast 76 

94 Simmons, William Benton 76 

125 Simpkins, Georgia 87 

59 Simpkins, Harry S 59 

59 Simpkins, Melancthon H 59 

48 Skelton, Eliza 54 

125 Skinner, Abby 87 

125 Skinner, Bart 87 

125 Skinner, Daisy May 87 

125 Skinner, Raymond 87 

387 Slattery, George S 157 

125 Smith 

41 Smith 

125 Smith 

8 Smith 

357 Smith 

125 Smith 

576 Smith 

125 Smith 

248 Smith 

125 Smith 

8 Smith 

331 Smith 

8 Smith 

125 Smith 

331 Smith 

125 Smith 

248 Smith 

335 Smith 

8 Smith 

419 Smith 

125 Smith 

21 Smith 

21 Smith 

411 Smith 

357 Smith 

419 Smith 

331 Smith 

411 Smith 

8 Smith 

419 Smith 

8 Smith 

125 Smith 

411 Smith 

125 Smith 

139 Smith 

411 Smith 



Albert 87 

Alice Marie 162 

Ann Eliza 87 

Arabella Theresa 21 

Augustus Ledyard 150 

Austin Eliot 87 

Belle M. Ormiston 206 

Bernice 87 

Bryan Herbert 127 

Caroline 87 

Caroline G. M. E 21 

Charles 145 

Chas. Adrian Worthington 21 

Charles Bertram 87 

Clifford 145 

Clyde Bernice 87 

Cyrus Porter 127 

Donna 146 

Elizabeth Barnett 21 

Evelyn Annie 164 

Fanny 87 

Francis H 39 

Frank Birge 39 

Franklin Eliot 162 

Franklin T 150 

Franklin T 164 

Freda 145 

Frederick Horace 163 

George 21 

Gladys Eliot 164 

Helen Grace 21 

Hermion 87 

Horace F 162 

J. Edwin 87 

J. Sheppard 90 

Jane Belle 163 



33& 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



No. 
41 
125 
125 
411 
125 
411 
411 
411 

125 
419 
411 
525 
125 
357 
125 
419 

357 

33i 

33i 

47 

8 

2 



125 
8 

419 
8 

14 
177 
177 
177 
177 
204 
204 
384 
384 
384 
384 
384 
384 
491 

384 
384 
384 
384 
384 



Page. 

Smith, John 49 

Smith, John 87 

Smith, John Lyman 87 

Smith, Josephine 162 

Smith, Laura 87 

Smith, Lewis Michael 163 

Smith, Lewis Whitney 163 

Smith, Lila May 162 

Smith, Lyman 87 

Smith, Malcolm F 164 

Smith, Mamie 162 

Smith, Martha E 203 

Smith, Mary Alberta \ 87 

Smith, Mary Eliot 150 

Smith, Mary Jane 87 

Smith, Mildred Loper 164 

Smith, Robert Eliot 150 

Smith, Roth 145 

Smith, Ruby 145 

Smith, Susan 52 

Smith, Theodore Dehon 21 

Smith, Thomas 16 

Smith, Thomas Kilby 21 

Smith, Thomas Kilby, Jr 21 

Smith, W. Austin 87 

Smith, Walter George 21 

Smith, Ward Loper 164 

Smith, William Butler Duncan . . 21 

Smithson, Elizabeth 45 

Smyth, Alexander Goodrich .... 101 

Smyth, Elizabeth Eliot 101 

Smyth, George H IOI 

Smyth, Josepha Franklin 101 

Smythe, Patrick 112 

Smythe, Ruf us King 112 

Snow, Addie 156 

Snow, Albert W 156 

Snow, Bertha L 156 

Snow, Chester Wilbur 156 

Snow, Clifton F 156 

Snow, Dell B 156 

Snow, Dora 176 

Snow, Frank H 156 

Snow, Irving Albert 156 

Snow, Orlo 156 

Snow, Rollo 156 

Snow, Warren Clare 156 



No. p a ge. 

384 Snow, William C 156 

384 Snow, William D 156 

331 Somers, Francis J 145 

255 Soule, Alonzo B 129 

255 Soule, Darwin 129 

255 Soule, David 129 

255 Soule, David 130 

255 Soule, Ellen L 130 

255 Soule, Freelove Mary 129 

255 Soule, Lillian Maud 129 

255 Soule, Willard D 129 

553 Spalding, Henrietta Cruger 205 

278 Speechley, Tamar 177 

59 Speer, Elizabeth 63 

383 Spence, Ann M 187 

59 Spence, George Loomis 62 

380 Spence, George M 156 

86 Spencer, Amanda 71 

375 Spencer, Annie Griffing 155 

375 Spencer, Charles Eliot 154 

375 Spencer, Charles Eliot 154 

375 Spencer, Daniel Reeves 154 

375 Spencer, Ethel Kimberly 154 

86 Spencer, Fanny 70 

375 Spencer, Fitz-Henry 154 

375 Spencer, Frank Davis 155 

375 Spencer, Frank Roger 154 

86 Spencer, Harriet 71 

375 Spencer, Harvey 154 

375 Spencer, Harvey Walter 154 

375 Spencer, Henry Edward 154 

375 Spencer, Henry Leete 155 

375 Spencer, Henry Reeves 154 

86 Spencer, Horace 70 

375 Spencer, James Henry 155 

86 Spencer, Mary 71 

375 Spencer, May Blackman 154 

85 Spencer, Mindwell 103 

86 Spencer, Nancy 70 

375 Spencer, Robert Henry 154 

375 Spencer, Robert Tuttle 154 

375 Spencer, Ruth Davis 154 

375 Spencer, Samuel Leslie 155 

375 Spencer, Sara Eliot 155 

86 Spencer, Uriah 70 

93 Squires, Cecil Price 75 

100 Squires, Rachel Wood 77 



INDEX OF NAMES OTHER THAN ELIOT. 



339 



No. Page. 

ii St. Auburn, William T 29 

160 Stanley, Elizabeth 144 

101 Stannard, John 78 

102 Stannard, Mary 115 

166 Stanton, Elizabeth Mary 97 

166 Stanton, John 96 

166 Stanton, John Adam 96 

166 Stanton, Lewis Eliot 97 

576 Stearns, Kate 206 

45 Steele, Caroline 50 

96 Sterling, Elisha 112 

233 Stettinius, Mary Longworth 124 

441 Stevens, Emma Elizabeth 195 

173 Stevens, Fannie 99 



No. 
57 
57 
57 
77 
57 
57 
77 
77 
77 
283 
12 
57 
77 
77 
222 

Steward, Mary 54 222 

Stockton, Laura Anderson 125 I 222 

222 
222 
292 
66 
66 
66 
66 
66 



372 Stone, Adeline Eliot 154 

233 Stone, Alice Mandell 124 

246 Stone, Anna .'. 167 

372 Stone, Anna Mary 154 

90 Stone, Catherine Eliot 72 

90 Stone, Catherine Elizabeth 72 

90 Stone, Charles Russel 71 

90 Stone, Eliot Kays 72 

372 Stone, Eliot Wyllys 154 

90 Stone, George Eliot 72 

90 Stone, Henrietta Fowler 71 

90 Stone, Henry Augustus 71 

90 Stone, James Kays ' 72 

90 Stone, John Ward 71 

372 Stone, Leverett Camp 154 

372 Stone, Leverett Camp 153 

372 Stone, William Leete 154 

372 Stone, William Morrell 154 

90 Stone, William Russel 71 

31 1 Storms, Lina 142 

458 Story, Francis 171 

458 Story, G. C 171 

458 Story, Guy 171 

458 Story, Heman 171 

458 Story, J. E 171 

458 Story, Jeanette 171 

458 Story, Ola 171 

59 Stow, Ella L 63 

122 Stowe, Chauncey Eliot 86 

122 Stowe, Daniel B 86 



66 

404 

404 

404 

404 

192 

181 

59 

59 

59 

59 

59 

59 

59 

59 

59 

59 

59 

59 

59 

59 



Page. 

Street, Edward Payson 56 

Street, Elizabeth Mansfield 56 

Street, Owen 56 

Strong, Charles 69 

Strong, Charles Henry 57 

Strong, George Augustus 57 

Strong, Harriet 69 

Strong, Henry 69 

Strong, Julia 69 

Strong, Lavinia 137 

Strong, Martha 30 

Strong, Mary Huntington 57 

Strong, Mortimer 69 

Strong, Sarah 69 

.. 118 

.. 118 

.. 117 

.. 118 

... 118 

.. 177 

.. 66 



Struthers, Agnes Marion 

Struthers, Helen , 

Struthers, John Strickland . . , 

Struthers, Mary Leete 

Struthers, William 

Stuart, Elizabeth 

Summerell, Anna Maria 

Summerell, Elisha Mitchell 66 

Summerell, Gertrude Hope 66 

Summerell, James North Howard 66 

Summerell, J. J 66 

Summerell, John Mitchell 66 

Summerell, Josephine Eliot 66 

Sumner, Eliot 159 

Sumner, Eliot 159 

Sumner, Graham 159 

Sumner, William Graham 159 

Sutton, Mary 107 

Swain, Eliza Jane 147 

Swift, Anne Kitchel 62 

Swift, Ashbel Green 60 

Swift, Caroline Brooks 62 

Swift, Carolyn 61 

Swift, Catherine Wilhelmina .... 61 

Swift, Clarinda S. . . . : 58 

Swift, Edward Payson 61 

Swift, Eliot Elisha 61 

Swift, Eliot Elisha 61 

Swift, Elisha Ephraim 62 

Swift, Elisha Pope 60 

Swift, Elisha Pope 61 

Swift, Ella Mary 61 

Swift, Ephraim Griswold 58 



34Q 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



No. Page. 

59 Swift, Ephraim Griswold 61 

59 Swift, Frances Damon 61 

59 Swift, Francis Mason 62 

59 Swift, Frederic William 62 

59 Swift, Frederic William 62 

59 Swift, George Damon 61 

59 Swift, Gertrude 62 

59 Swift, Grace Eliot 62 

59 Swift, Heman 62 

59 Swift, Henrietta Mary 60 

59 Swift, Henry Martyn 61 

255 Swift, Jay 130 

59 Swift, Joseph 61 

59 Swift, Joseph 61 

59 Swift, Joseph Patterson 61 

59 Swift, Josephine 62 

59 Swift, Leland Miller 62 

59 Swift, Louise Bradford 62 

59 Swift, Lucy Alice 62 

59 Swift, Lucy Eliot 58 

59 Swift, Lucy Elizabeth 61 

59 Swift, Lucy Elizabeth 62 

59 Swift, Margaret Gertrude 62 

59 Swift, Mary Amelia Bradford . . 62 

59 Swift, Mary Elizabeth 62 

59 Swift, Mary Huston 61 

59 Swift, Nathan Eliot 60 

255 Swift, Oscar Don 130 

59 Swift, Sabrina Eliot 63 

59 Swift, Samuel Beach 60 

59 Swift, Sarah Aurelia 62 

59 Swift, Sarah Cooley 62 

59 Swift, Seth 58 

59 Swift, Susan M 61 

59 Swift, Theodore Tenney 61 

59 Swift, Theodore Wells 62 

59 Swift, Tryphenia 62 



T 

62 Talcott, Clarina Eliot 64 

62 Talcott, Hart 64 

62 Talcott, Hart 64 

173 Tarbell, Hattie 99 

326 Taylor, Anna 144 

233 Taylor, Annie Edith 123 



No. Page. 

255 Taylor, George C 129 

255 Taylor, Morris L 129 

255 Taylor, Pierce C 129 

200 Tessier, Jules 109 

59 Thane, B. L 63 

335 Thayer, Nettie L 146 

121 Thomas, Eunice 130 

123 Thompson, Adelia 87 

40 Thompson, Doris E 48 

40 Thompson, Edward F 48 

40 Thompson, Margery E 48 

25 Thompson, Mary 45 

25 Thompson, Mary Warren 45 

59 Thomson, Fannie M 59 

446 Thonert, Albert H 170 

446 Thonert, Alice Bertha 170 

446 Thonert, Augusta Evelina 170 

446 Thonert, Gustave 170 

83 Thorp, Michael 70 

424 Ticknor, Lewis M 165 

191 Todd, Adelaide Stoyell 107 

191 Todd, Albert 106 

191 Todd, Annie Backus 106 

191 Todd, Edward Elliott 106 

191 Todd, Edward Herman 106 

191 Todd, George Faster 106 

191 Todd, George Nelson 106 

191 Todd, Herman Adelbert 107 

45 Todd, John A 51 

191 Todd, Louie Augusta 106 

191 Todd, Mary Elliott 106 

47 Tousley, Mrs. Judge 52 

97 Towner, Jane 114 

264 Towner, Louise Elizabeth 174 

227 Townsend, Mary Louise 119 

175 Tree, Jeannie M 100 

379 Trissler, Elizabeth N. Kelsey .... 187 

16 Trowbridge, John 33 

238 Trussell, F. B 125 

466 Tubbs, Emma Jane 197 

59 Tucker, Edgar Page 61 

290 Tucker, Eliza 138 

59 Tucker, Florence Henrietta 61 

59 Tucker, Mary Wright 61 

207 Turner, Ada Frances 115 

207 Turner, Ellen Calista 115 

59 Turner, Gertrude May 59 



INDEX OF NAMES OTHER THAN ELIOT. 



343 



No. Page. 

377 Wilcox, Lewis Edward 155 

377 Wilcox, Louis 155 

77 Wilcox, Lucius Fitch 68 

77 Wilcox, Maria Mabel 68 

77 Wilcox, Mary 69 

57 Wilcox, Maurice 55 

77 Wilcox, Nancy Lay 68 

77 Wilcox, Nathan 67 

77 Wilcox, Nathan Eliot 68 

57 Wilcox, Oliver 56 

377 Wilcox, Samuel A 155 

377 Wilcox, Sarah Adeline 155 

377 Wilcox, Stella Eliot 155 

77 Wilcox, Stephen Pierson 68 

57 Wilcox, William Crane 56 

57 Wilcox, William Henry ....<f.7-T 56 

255 Wilkinson, Charles 130 

678 Willcuts, Burr 203 

678 Willcuts, Leo 203 

679 Willcuts, Manoah 203 

675 Willcuts, Mary E 209 

3 Willett, Sarah 20 

262 Williams, Mr 132 

100 Williams, Charles Eliot 77 

100 Williams, Delia Amery 77 

100 Williams, Eliot Strong 77 

50 Williams, Margaret 85 

235 Williams, Margaret Smith 162 

343 Williams, Marguerette, Mrs 148 

100 Williams, Mary 77 

100 Williams, Mary Delia 77 

100 Williams, Mary Louise 77 

100 Williams, Othniel 77 

100 Williams, Othniel 77 

100 Williams, Othniel Strong 77 

100 Williams, Rachel 77 

100 Williams, Ruth Delia 77 

100 Williams, Sophie 77 

100 Williams, Sophie Louise 77 

456 Wilson, Cora May 171 

62 Wilson, Franklin Osburn 64 

612 Wilson, Harry B 192 

456 Wilson, Harvey James 171 

456 Wilson, Jennie Josephine 171 

346 Wilson, Sallie Campbell 148 

62 Wilson, Samuel Roberts 64 

62 Wilson, Samuel Roberts 64 

22 



N °- Page. 

10 Wilson, William 27 

59 Winegar, Claus Smith 62 

59 Winegar, Clayton Swift 62 

59 Winegar, Edward William 62 

59 Winegar, Frederic S 62 

59 Winegar, Swift Wells 62 

59 Winegar, William S 62 

482 Winter, Florence 200 

93 Wirt, George Boynton 76 

93 Wirt, Joseph Benton 76 

93 Wirt, Loyal L 76 

93 Wirt, Monica Alexandra 76 

93 Wirt, Williston 76 

142 Witherspoon, Frances 92 

142 Witherspoon, James 92 

142 Witherspoon, James 92 

142 Witherspoon, John 92 

142 Witherspoon, Margaret 92 

142 Witherspoon, Sara Cross 92 

41 1 Withrow, Anna 162 

93 Wixom, Charles Frederic 74 

93 Wixom, Charles N 74 

93 Wixom, Cornelia Elise 74 

93 Wixom, Ella Frances 74 

93 Wixom, Fanny Augusta 74 

93 Wixom, Harriet Prentiss 74 

22 Wolcott, Lydia Atwater 48 

9 Wolcott, Mary 39 

93 Wolcott, William A 75 

93 Wolcott, William E 75 

676 Wolgamott, Frank 203 

77 Wood, Ann Eliza 68 

77 Wood, Catherine Eliot 68 

77 Wood, Charles Wiltshire 68 

77 Wood, Elizabeth 68 

77 Wood, Harriet J 68 

59 Wood, Henry W. S 59 

77 Wood, William Eliot 68 

77 Wood, William J 68 

12 Woodbridge, Abigail 30 

12 Woodbridge, Abigail 30 

12 Woodbridge, Aeneas 30 

12 Woodbridge, Benjamin 30 

12 Woodbridge, Benjamin 30 

12 Woodbridge, Caroline ,. 30 

12 Woodbridge, Emereniana 30 

12 Woodbridge, Isabella 30 



344 



DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT. 



No. Page. 

[2 Woodbridge, Jahleel 30, 31 

12 Woodbridge, Jahleel 30 

[2 Woodbridge, Jahleel 3° 

[2 Woodbridge, Jemima 30 

12 Woodbridge, Jemima 30 

12 Woodbridge, Jeremiah 30 

[2 Woodbridge, John 30 

[2 Woodbridge, John 3° 

[2 Woodbridge, John 32 

[2 Woodbridge, John Eliot 30 

[2 Woodbridge, Joseph 30, 3* 

[2 Woodbridge, Mabel 3° 

[2 Woodbridge, Mary 30 

[2 Woodbridge, Samuel 3° 

12 Woodbridge, Sarah Edwards .... 31 

[2 Woodbridge, Sophia 30 

12 Woodbridge, Stephen 30 

[2 Woodbridge, Sylvester 30 

12 Woodbridge, Sylvia 3° 

[2 Woodbridge, Timothy 3° 

12 Woodbridge, Tryphena 3° 

12 Woodbridge, Woodbridge 30 

251 Woodbury, Mr 128 

251 Woodbury, Fanny 128 

186 Woodruff, Lucy M 104 

48 Woods, Luther T 54 

227 Woodward, Catherine Eliot .... 119 

227 Woodward, Catherine Virginia . . 119 

227 Woodward, Charles Henry 119 

227 Woodward, Charles Rosewell ... 119 

227 Woodward, Edward Sylvanus .. 119 

227 Woodward, Elizabeth Eliot 119 

227 Woodward, John Brooks 119 

227 Woodward, John Ruggles 119 

227 Woodward, Richard Hill 119 

227 Woodward, Rosewell 119 

227 Woodward, William Rosewell ..119 

227 Woodward, William Townsend. . 119 

255 Woodworth, Viola 129 

404 Woolsey, Laura 159 

27 Worthington, Mary 52-53 

59 Wright, Agnes Alston 60 

59 Wright, Anne Bakewell 60 

59 Wright, Anna Lucy 61 



No. Page. 

59 Wright, Archie Gilmore 60 

59 Wright, Bertrand Edward 60 

59 Wright, Edward Elisha 60 

59 Wright, Edward W 60 

59 Wright, Edward W 60 

59 Wright, Elisha Pierson Swift ... 61 

59 Wright, Elisha Pierson Swift ... 60 

59 Wright, Elisha Pope 61 

59 Wright, Elisha Pope Swift 60 

59 Wright, Elizabeth Green 61 

59 Wright, Ettie Darling 61 

59 Wright, Euphenia 60 

59 Wright, Fitch Perkins 60 

59 Wright, Gifford King 60 

59 Wright, Henry Hall 60 

59 Wright, Janette 60 

59 Wright, Janette Eliza 60 

59 Wright, John Eliot 60 

59 Wright, Kate Eliot 61 

59 Wright, Lucy Henrietta 60 

59 Wright, Marguerite 60 

59 Wright, Mary Swift 60 

59 Wright, Mary Williamson 61 

59 Wright, Naomi 60 

59 Wright, Will Eliot 60 

59 Wright, William Stone 60 

59 Wright, Williamson ....: 61 

59 Wright, Williamson Swift 60 

59 Wright, Williamson Swift 61 

4 Wyllys, Mary 32, 33. 40 

143 Wynkoop, Francenia 140 



404 Yardley, Laura Woolsey 159 

153 Yates, Clara A 94 

153 Yates, Sarah Ann 94 

153 Yocous, William D 93 

203 Yorke, Adelaide L 111 

255 Young, Charles M 130 

255 Young, Roy Alonzo 130 

255 Young, Willis Milton 130 

238 Yowell, Mary Alice 125 



Ao it 



